CRICK as NOUN

1. Meaning
   • English biochemist who (with Watson in 1953) helped discover the helical structure of DNA (born in 1916)
   Synonym(s)
   • Francis Crick (what does Francis Crick mean?)
   • Francis Henry Compton Crick (what does Francis Henry Compton Crick mean?)
   Hypernyms(s) Crick is a kind of… Example: animal is a hypernym of mammal, plant is a hypernym of flower
   • biochemist (what does biochemist mean?)
2. Meaning
   • a painful muscle spasm especially in the neck or back (`rick” and `wrick” are British)
   Synonym(s)
   • rick (what does rick mean?)
   • wrick (what does wrick mean?)
   Hypernyms(s) crick is a kind of… Example: animal is a hypernym of mammal, plant is a hypernym of flower
   • spasm (what does spasm mean?)
   • cramp (what does cramp mean?)
   • muscle spasm (what does muscle spasm mean?)
   Derived(s)
   • twist (what does twist mean?)
   • sprain (what does sprain mean?)
   • wrench (what does wrench mean?)
   • turn (what does turn mean?)
   • wrick (what does wrick mean?)
   • rick (what does rick mean?)
   • twist (what does twist mean?)
   • sprain (what does sprain mean?)
   • wrench (what does wrench mean?)
   • turn (what does turn mean?)
   • wrick (what does wrick mean?)
   • rick (what does rick mean?)
   • crick (what does crick mean?)

CRICK as VERB

1. Meaning
   • twist the head into a strained position
   Hypernyms(s) crick is a kind of… Example: animal is a hypernym of mammal, plant is a hypernym of flower
   • tense (what does tense mean?)
   • strain (what does strain mean?)
   • tense up (what does tense up mean?)
   Derived(s)
   • crick (what does crick mean?)
   • rick (what does rick mean?)
   • wrick (what does wrick mean?)