Definitions for cricks

cricks crick

Spelling: [krik]
IPA: /krɪk/

Cricks is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 13 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 15 points.

You can make 66 anagrams from letters in cricks (ccikrs).

Definitions for cricks

noun

  1. a sharp, painful spasm of the muscles, as of the neck or back.
  2. creek (def 1).
  3. Francis Harry Compton, 1916–2004, English biophysicist: Nobel Prize in Medicine 1962.

verb (used with object)

  1. to give a crick or wrench to (the neck, back, etc.).

Origin of cricks

1400-50; late Middle English crikke, perhaps akin to crick2

Examples for cricks

Mr. Moss was disentangling the crick in his back for the last time that day.

I disremember just how fur that last stop is from the crick, but I think it's betwixt 25 and 30 mile.

If you want to go to the other side of the "crick" you must take a steamboat.

There was a crick in his neck, but he decided he could stand it.

crick was unknown to the porter, and little known to most of the boys.

If I could only lay in a crick—roll in it—douse my face in it—soak my clothes in it!

Thinks I to m'self, they is pickin' them blackberries down to the crick.

"Come down to the crick with me after tea, and I'll explain," said Will.

Sounds like somebody slappin' the crick with a fishin'-pole.

crick also questioned the authenticity of another piece, “A Hanging.”

Word Value for cricks
Scrable

13

Words with friends

15

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