Definitions
A painful stiffness or kink, especially in the neck.
Word origin
From Middle English crike, crykke (“muscular spasm of the neck”), attested since the 1400s. Likely related to Old Norse kriki (“bend; nook”), whence also crick (“creek”) and creek.
Used in a sentence
“I had a crick in my neck for a week after ordering the wrong pillow at the Graylyn Estate […]”
“He stopped a few feet from her, probably because he'd have to crick his neck to glare at her and that would just be embarrassing for him. “Dealing with garbage suits you.””
“The throbbing pain that even now was coursing through his neck and shoulders, making him crick his neck.”
Source: Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0
Used as a crossword answer1 curated clues
01“Neck kink”5 letters
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