Crick

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NOUN

kink, rick, wrick

a painful muscle spasm especially in the neck or back (`rick' and `wrick' are British)

Francis Crick, Francis Henry Compton Crick

English biochemist who (with Watson in 1953) helped discover the helical structure of DNA (1916-2004)

VERB

twist (a body part) into a strained position

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