"cricks" in the noun sense
1. crick, kink, rick, wrick
a painful muscle spasm especially in the neck or back (`rick' and `wrick' are British)
2. Crick, Francis Crick, Francis Henry Compton Crick
English biochemist who (with Watson in 1953) helped discover the helical structure of DNA (1916-2004)
"cricks" in the verb sense
1. crick
twist (a body part) into a strained position
"crick your neck"
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