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crike

crike is the clipping of cricothyrotomy.

Meaning of cricothyrotomy

Noun

cricothyrotomy (plural cricothyrotomies)

  1. An incision made through the skin and cricothyroid membrane to establish a patent airway during certain life-threatening situations, such as airway obstruction by a foreign body, angioedema, or massive facial trauma.

Verb

crike (third-person singular simple present crikes, present participle criking, simple past and past participle criked)

  1. (informal, transitive) To perform a cricothyrotomy on (someone)
    • I criked her

Interjection

crike

  1. Crikey

Forms of crike

Noun
pluralcrikes
Verb
third-person singular presentcrikes
present participlecriking
past participlecriked
pastcriked

Questions about crike

What does crike mean?
Crike means to perform a cricothyrotomy on (someone).
What is crike the clipping of?
Crike is the clipping of cricothyrotomy.
What part of speech is crike?
Crike can be a verb or an interjection.
What is the past tense of crike?
The past tense of crike is criked.

Words near crike in the dictionary

  1. Criglers
  2. Crihfield
  3. Crihfields
  4. CRIII
  5. crik
  6. crike
  7. crikes
  8. crikey
  9. crikeycore
  10. criks
  11. Crikvenica

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Adapted from Wiktionary: crike (page history and authors); cricothyrotomy (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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