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crick

English

  1. 🔊 English biochemist who (with Watson in 1953) helped discover the helical structure of DNA (1916-2004)
  2. 🔊 a painful muscle spasm especially in the neck or back (`rick' and `wrick' are British)
  3. 🔊 twist (a body part) into a strained position
    “crick your neck”

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