torcicollo — meaning in English

English meaning

• crick noun A sudden, painful stiffness in a muscle, usually in the neck or back, that makes it hard to move for a while.

Senses

torcicollo is used for these senses in English:

• Eurasian wryneck A small migratory bird in the woodpecker family, Jynx torquilla.
• crick 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.
• wryneck Either of two small woodpeckers, Jynx torquilla and Jynx ruficollis, of the Old World, that turn their heads almost 180 degrees when foraging.

crick — full definition

1. noun A sudden, painful stiffness in a muscle, usually in the neck or back, that makes it hard to move for a while.
2. verb To twist or strain a part of the body, causing this kind of stiffness.