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crick
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crick in one's back
a twisted or cramped place in the back that causes pain. I can't move! I've got a crick in my back! I had a crick in my back all night and I couldn't sleep.
See also: back

crick in one's neck

Fig. a twisted place or a cramp in the neck that causes pain. I got a crick in my neck from sleeping in a draft. When I read on the plane, I get a crick in my neck.
See also: neck
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Back with their families, the players have been venting their anguish over the killings, though there has been casualties from cricking circles.
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Murray screamed in agony when he fell at the start of third set, straining his groin and cricking his neck but it's the thumb injury he sustained at the end of the first set that worries him most.
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Still, she'd managed to pin the ruined examples of yesterday's fabrics to the board beside her desk where we might consider them from our slightly sublimated position, cricking our necks just so and in this act being reminded our of dazzling ineptitude.
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