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cricks

cricks is the plural of crick.

Meaning of crick

Noun (1)

crick (plural cricks)

  1. A painful stiffness in some part of the body, like the neck or back, which makes it difficult to move the affected body part for some time; a cramp.
    • I had a crick in my neck for a week after ordering the wrong pillow at the Graylyn Estate […]2022, Brenda Prater Sellers, You Slept Where?: Calamities of a Clumsy Businesswoman
  2. A small jackscrew.

Noun (2)

crick (plural cricks)

  1. The creaking of a door, or a noise resembling it.

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Questions about cricks

What is cricks the plural of?
Cricks is the plural of crick.

Words near cricks in the dictionary

  1. crickey
  2. Crickhowell
  3. cricking
  4. Cricklade
  5. Cricklewood
  6. cricks
  7. cricky
  8. crico-
  9. crico-arytænoid
  10. crico-arytænoids
  11. cricoarytenoid

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