| 单词 | crick |
| 释义 | crick (once / 20700 pages) nv If you have a crick, it means there's a cramp or a painful stiffness in your neck. You might wake with a crick in your neck after sleeping in an uncomfortable position. Staring up at the stars might give you a crick in your neck, and so might traveling a long time on a bus or in a car, or any other activity that limits the movement of your head and neck. You might also end a challenging yoga class with a crick in your neck. Experts aren't sure where crick comes from, though it may be onomatopœic, echoing the sound of a creaking joint. WORD FAMILYcrick: cricked, cricking, cricks USAGE EXAMPLESAll that craning your neck while seated can give you a crick. Washington Post(Nov 03, 2016) “Just kids I found along the crick bank,” Grandma said, to our surprise. Richard Peck, A Long Way from Chicago(1998) “We wanted them to go out and fall into the crick and stuff like that,” Smith says. Wall Street Journal(Sep 06, 2016) 1n a painful muscle spasm especially in the neck or back (`rick' and `wrick' are British) Syn|Hyper kink, rick, wrick cramp, muscle spasm, spasm a painful and involuntary muscular contraction 2v twist (a body part) into a strained position crick your neck Hyper twist turn in the opposite direction Crick (once / 27942 pages) n WORD FAMILY Crick: Cricks USAGE EXAMPLESMcGloin underwent an MRI on Monday after being roughed in the second quarter by Jared Crick. Washington Times(Jan 02, 2017) He was hurt when Jared Crick slammed him to the turf, drawing a roughing-the-passer penalty. Los Angeles Times(Jan 01, 2017) Whoever finds it would join Newton, Einstein, Watson, and Crick in the scientific pantheon. Slate(Dec 19, 2016) n English biochemist who (with Watson in 1953) helped discover the helical structure of DNA (1916-2004) Syn|Exp Francis Crick, Francis Henry Compton Crick biochemist someone with special training in biochemistry |
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