- a sharp, painful spasm of the muscles, as of the neck or back.
- to give a crick or wrench to (the neck, back, etc.).
- English biophysicist: Nobel Prize in Medicine 1962.
- a painful muscle spasm or cramp, esp in the neck or back
- to cause a crick in (the neck, back, etc)
- US and Canadian a dialect word for creek (def. 2)
- Francis Harry Compton. 1916–2004, English molecular biologist: helped to discover the helical structure of DNA; Nobel prize for physiology or medicine shared with James Watson and Maurice Wilkins 1962
