Source : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Crick \Crick\ (kr[i^]k), n. [See {Creak}.]
   The creaking of a door, or a noise resembling it. [Obs.]
   --Johnson.

Crick \Crick\, n. [The same as creek a bending, twisting. See
   {Creek}, {Crook}.]
   1. A painful, spasmodic affection of the muscles of some part
      of the body, as of the neck or back, rendering it
      difficult to move the part.

            To those also that, with a crick or cramp, have thei
            necks drawn backward.                 --Holland.

   2. [Cf. F. cric.] A small jackscrew. --Knight.

Source : WordNet®

crick
     n 1: a painful muscle spasm especially in the neck or back
          (`rick' and `wrick' are British) [syn: {rick}, {wrick}]
     2: English biochemist who (with Watson in 1953) helped discover
        the helical structure of DNA (born in 1916) [syn: {Francis
        Crick}, {Francis Henry Compton Crick}]
     v : twist the head into a strained position