crick

Noun

• English biochemist who (with Watson in 1953) helped discover the helical structure of DNA (1916-2004)

• a painful muscle spasm especially in the neck or back (`rick' and `wrick' are British)

Verb

• twist (a body part) into a strained position
  • crick your neck
    

Related words

• Synonyms: 
  Crick , Francis Crick , Francis Henry Compton Crick , kink , rick , wrick