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  • 61Crick — noun a) A village in Northamptonshire, England b) A habitational surname derived from the placename …

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  • 62crick — Synonyms and related words: acute pain, bite, boring pain, branch, brook, charley horse, chirk, chirking, chirp, chirrup, cramp, cramps, creak, darting pain, fulgurant pain, gill, girdle pain, gnawing, griping, hitch, jumping pain, kink,… …

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  • 63crick — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) n. spasm; dial. creek. See pain, water. II (Roget s IV) n. Syn. spasm, cramp, kink; see pain 2 …

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  • 64crick — krɪk n. muscle cramp, muscle spasm (in the neck, back, etc.) …

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  • 65crick — noun a painful stiff feeling in the neck or back. verb twist or strain (one s neck or back), causing painful stiffness. Origin ME: of unknown origin …

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  • 66crick — n. Spasm, cramp, convulsion …

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  • 67crick — n kink, hitch, cramp, pain; spasm, throe, twitch, tremor, twinge, pang …

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  • 68crick — [krɪk] noun [C] a sudden pain in your neck or back that you get when the muscles become stiff …

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  • 69Crick — [[t]krɪk[/t]] n. big Francis Harry Compton, born 1916, English biophysicist: Nobel prize for physiology or medicine 1962 …

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  • 70Crick — /krɪk/ (say krik) noun Francis Harry Compton, 1916–2004, English physicist and biochemist; shared Nobel prize for physiology or medicine (1962) with James Watson and Maurice Wilkins for work in determining the structure of DNA …