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crick

/ crick /

noun/verb

noun Sense 1

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

Type of:

biochemist

noun Sense 2

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

Type of:

spasm cramp muscle spasm

Derived:

twist sprain wrench turn wrick

Domain:

United Kingdom UK Great Britain

verb Sense 3

twist the head into a strained position

Type of:

tense strain tense up

Derived:

rick wrick

Usage Patterns:

Somebody ----s somebody into V-ing something

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