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# crick

«crick» in Mova's school dictionary: **A sudden, stiff pain in the neck or back that makes it…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

noun (crick, cricks)

### meaning for a pupil

1) A sudden, stiff pain in the neck or back that makes it hard to move. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/crick/#m1)

2) A sharp cracking or snapping sound. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/crick/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

in tales, a stiff neck that stops someone turning their head, or a sharp «crick! crack!» sound

### examples

- I woke up with a crick in my neck. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/crick/#x1)
- Crick! crack! went the branch. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/crick/#x2)
- He could not turn his head because of a crick. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/crick/#x3)

### note

nothing for maths

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «crick» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/crick/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.