crick

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

• noun A painful cramp or muscle spasm, as in the back or neck.
• transitive verb To cause a painful cramp or muscle spasm in by turning or wrenching.

from The Century Dictionary.

• To creak.
• To wrench or sprain: as, to crick one's neck.
• noun A painful spasmodic affection of some part of the body, as of the neck or back, in the nature of a cramp or transient stiffness, making motion of the part difficult.
• noun A small jackscrew.
• noun An inlet of the sea or a river: same as creek
• noun A small stream; a brook: same as creek, 2, which is the usual spelling, though generally pronounced in the United States as crick.
• noun A crevice; chink; cranny; corner.
• noun A creaking. as of a door.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

• noun obsolete The creaking of a door, or a noise resembling it.
• noun 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.
• noun A small jackscrew.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

• noun A painful muscular cramp or spasm of some part of the body, as of the neck or back, making it difficult to move the part affected. (Compare catch.)
• noun A small jackscrew.
• verb to violently spasm.
• noun Appalachian Alternative form of creek.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

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