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rick

[ UK /ɹˈɪk/ ]
[ US /ˈɹɪk/ ]
NOUN
  1. a painful muscle spasm especially in the neck or back (`rick' and `wrick' are British)
  2. a stack of hay
VERB
  1. twist suddenly so as to sprain
    the hikers sprained their ankles when they fell
    wrench one's ankle
    The wrestler twisted his shoulder
    I turned my ankle and couldn't walk for several days
  2. pile in ricks
    rick hay

How To Use rick In A Sentence

  • Rows of brick garden apartments all backed onto a massive common garden: a shared backyard for children to play, dogs to gambol, and families to eat picnics together. Day of Honey
  • Iin this case it uses the atomic unit of digital life - a single screen of data on a Palm, a little brick of reality we spend so much time staring at all day long.
  • So much so that when he tried out a few of his character's screen tricks on his family, they put him firmly in his place. The Sun
  • Roderick Little, a University of Michigan biostatistician, will become associate director for statistical methodology and standards at the Census Bureau beginning in September. Robert Groves Names Roderick Little, U Of Mich. Statistician, To New Census Post
  • But there was an element of delusion, mild trickery even, about this process.
  • The building is dark brick topped by pinky-coloured concrete block walls, white plastic-looking fascia board, black plastic guttering and an artificial slate roof.
  • Hesher (Director: Spencer Susser; Screenwriters: Spencer Susser and David Michod; Story by Brian Charles Frank) — A mysterious, anarchical trickster descends on the lives of a family struggling to deal with a painful loss. Sundance 2010 Competition Lineup Arrives, And Here Are Some Highlights » MTV Movies Blog
  • Looking through the casement was the visage of the mariner, no longer stern, but moved with unutterable emotion, and tears, yes, tears trickling down his weather-beaten cheeks. Edward Barnett; a Neglected Child of South Carolina, Who Rose to Be a Peer of Great Britain,—and the Stormy Life of His Grandfather, Captain Williams or, The Earle's Victims: with an Account of the Terrible End of the Proud Earl De Montford, the Lamen
  • Somehow, they gathered themselves to beat Limerick in the first round of the qualifiers but the core discontent hadn't been addressed.
  • The geography was utterly alien to Patrick, although his unfamiliarity with the picture could have been attributed to the gaps.
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