Definition of
crick has definitions from the fields of medicine,chemistry,biochemistry
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[ verb ] twist the head into a strained position

Related terms

tense

2
[ noun ] (chemistry,biochemistry) English biochemist who (with Watson in 1953) helped discover the helical structure of DNA (born in 1916)

Synonyms

francis_henry_compton_crick francis_crick

Related terms

biochemist

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[ noun ] Last name, frequency rank in the U.S. is 10245
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[ noun ] (medicine) a painful muscle spasm especially in the neck or back (`rick' and `wrick' are British)

Synonyms

wrick rick

Related terms

spasm UK

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Rhymes with

rick prick frick brick trick choric cleric hydroelectric electric photoelectric mercuric garrick zurich kubrick rubric barbaric ugric caloric frederick boric pyrrhic doric psychiatric derrick lyric eccentric herrick barometric hysteric pediatric hemispheric geriatric parametric patrick geometric obstetric gravimetric mubarak nitric prehistoric esoteric atmospheric alphanumeric econometric mesenteric historic dietrich fabric metric maverick stearic citric pindaric concentric baldric gastric tantric pinprick numeric firebrick euphoric satiric mubarak anthropocentric generic geocentric homeric egocentric ethnocentric meteoric sulfuric

Phonetic and Homophones

K R IH1 K Krick

Similar Spelling

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