Crick Very Common

a painful muscle spasm especially in the neck or back (`rick' and `wrick' are British)

English biochemist who (with Watson in 1953) helped discover the helical structure of DNA (1916-2004)

A painful muscular cramp or spasm of some part of the body, as of the neck or back, making it difficult to move the part affected. (Compare catch.)

Alternative form of creek

The creaking of a door, or a noise resembling it.

twist (a body part) into a strained position

"crick your neck"

To develop a crick (cramp, spasm).

A village and civil parish in Daventry district, Northamptonshire, England (OS grid ref SP5872).