Rick

Definition: Rick

Rick

Noun

1. A painful muscle spasm especially in the neck or back (`rick' and `wrick' are British).

2. A stack of hay.

Verb

1. Pile in ricks, as of hay.

2. Twist suddenly so as to sprain; "wrench one's ankle"; "The wrestler twisted his shoulder"; "the hikers sprained their ankles when they fell"; "I turned my ankle and couldn't walk for several days".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

"Rick" is a name that signifies or is derived from: "a brave power".

Date "rick" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1861. (references)

"Rick" is a common misspelling or typo for: bricks, crack, rocky, track.

Industry

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Synonyms: Rick

Assemblage

Group, cluster, Pleiades, clump, pencil; set, batch, lot, pack; budget, assortment, bunch; parcel; packet, package; bundle, fascine, fasces, bale; seron, seroon; fagot, wisp, truss, tuft; shock, rick, fardel, stack, sheaf, fascicle, fascicule, fasciculus, gavel, hattock, stook.

Store

Store, accumulation, hoard, rick, stack; lumber; relay; (provision).

Crosswords: Rick

German (Rick), Manx (consistence, intelligence, news, order, satisfaction, settled rule, settlement, steadiness, story, tale, uniformity).

Rick, think of all the poor devils who can't meet Renault's price (Casablanca; writing credit: Murray Burnett; Joan Alison)

Look at me and my Rick. (Sleepless in Seattle; writing credit: Nora Ephron)

I'm a Spalding Gray in a Rick Dees world (The Simpsons; writing credit: Artur Brauner; Paul Hengge)

Rick, Your parents died this morning (The Young Ones; writing credit: Ben Elton; Rik Mayall)

You just don't like women, Rick. (Pushover; writing credit: Bill S. Ballinger; Roy Huggins)

Rick Astley (She Wants To Dance With Me; performing artist: Rick Astley)

Slick like Rick I can't miss (Will2K; performing artist: Will Smith)

Rick (2003)

The Rick & Bubba Show (2002)

Rick & Darva: The Million Dollar Mistake: The E! True Hollywood Story (2000)

The Rick Reynolds Show (1992)

Travels in Europe with Rick Steves (1991)

Never Gonna Give You Up (performing artist: Rick Astely)

Cry For Help (performing artist: Rick Astley)

She Wants To Dance With Me (performing artist: Rick Astley)

Together Forever (performing artist: Rick Astley)

HOPELESSLY� (performing artist: Rick Astley� )

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Books

• Rick Bayless Mexico: One Plate at a Time (reference)

• Rick Steves' Germany, Austria, and Switzerland 2003 (Rick Steves' Germany, Austria, and Switzerland, 2003) (reference)

• Rick Steves' Europe Through the Back Door 2003: The Travel Skills Handbook for Independent Travelers (Rick Steves' Europe Through the Back Door, 2003 (reference)

• Rick O'Shay, the Dailies: 1959-1960 (reference)

• Rick O'Shay: The Dailies: 1958 (reference)

  (more book examples)

Periodicals

• Ranger Rick (reference)

  (more periodical examples)

Theater & Movies

• Rick Steves Best of Travels in Europe - Collector's Case (reference)

• Rick Smith Swing Foundations (reference)

• Rick Steves Best of Travels in Europe - Germany, Austria & Switzerland (reference)

• Rick Steves: Best of Travels in Europe - Germany & Austria (reference)

• Rick Wakeman - Live in Buenos Aires (DVD + CD) (reference)

  (more DVD examples; more video examples)

Music

• Rock & Roll Hoochie Coo: The Best of Rick Derringer (reference)

• Great Adventures of Slick Rick (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Jim Bybee and Rick Wantuck of NOAA examine small steelhead trout in the creek. Credit: NOAA Restoration Center.

Staff Sgt. Rick Casto guides a B-52 Stratofortres.

Capt. Deidre Cacchilo, 433rd Aeromedical Evacuation Squadron, Kelly Air Force Base, Texas, egresses the aircraft with the help of crewmember Master Sgt. Rick Erwin, 465th Air Refueling Squadron, Tinker AFB, Okla. The simulated fire on board and egress exe.

Rick Lange, DC and Crawford County Conservationist partner, check nutrient management plan on a Crawford county farm. Credit: Bob Nichols.

Maintaining a viable farming enterprise is difficult in urban areas like Wake County can be difficult. Rick Bailey, Wake SWCD Administrator discusses soil conservation options with a local tobacco farmer. Credit: Bob Nichols.

Hydraulic engineer Doug Shields (right) and student research assistant Rick Rauteux observe changes in channel geometry and stream corridor habitats caused by water rushing over a headcut. P. Credit: USDA ARS News; photo by Scott Bauer..

Plant pathologist Rick Bennett examines fungi that may be used for biological control of pernicious weeds. P. Credit: USDA ARS News; photo by Scott Bauer..

Rick Bennett examines roots of a leafy spurge from Russia for pathogens which could be used for biocontrol of this weed in the United States. P. Credit: USDA ARS News; photo by Keith Weller..

Secretary Babbitt and Governor Kitzhaber discuss Mountain Mohogany plant with Rick Hall, a Burns District botanist, above Big Indian Gorge. Credit: Mark Armstrong & Chris Strebig.

(L - R) Oregon/Washington State Director, Elaine Zielinski, Burns Dist. Botanist, Rick Hall, and associate state director, Chuck Wassinger standing next to Steens Mountain interpretive panels. Credit: Mark Armstrong & Chris Strebig.

Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Beginning with "rick": rick-houses, rick-yard.

Ending with "rick": wheat-rick.

Albanian

Përdredhje (convolution, curl, kink, sprain, squirm, torsion, turn, twist, wrench, wrick), Ndrydhje (compression, constriction, dislocation, jaw, sprain, suppression, wrench, wrick), Mullar (mow, stack). (various references)

Arabic 

‏الم العنق, ‏التواء (contortion, offset, sprain, strain, warp). (various references)

Bulgarian 

Купа, Копа, Навяхвам Леко, Леко Навяхване, Леко � азтягане, � азтягам Леко. (various references)

Czech

Stoh (mow, pile, stack). (various references)

Danish

stak (beard, card deck, card pack, deck, deck of cards, pack, pushdown storage, pushdown store, set of cards, stack), brændestabel. (various references)

Dutch

hooistapel (stack), hooimijt (haystack). (various references)

Farsi 

پیچ خوردگی (Screw, Torsion, Turquoise, Twist), پیچ (Bolt, Buckle, Curve, Knee, Loop, Meander, Ramp, Screw, Twine, Twist, Vis, Vortex, Whorl), پشته (Barrow, Embankment, Heap, Hill, Hillock, Mound, Stack), کومه کردن (Pile, Stack), کومه (Congeries, Heap, Pile, Stack), توده (Aggregate, Barrow, Bloc, Block, Bulk, Clot, Cob, Congeries, Gross, Heap, Hill, Lump, Mass, Midden, Oodles, Pile, Pyre, Riffraff, Shock, Stack, Volume, Wad). (various references)

Finnish

keko (stack), aumata (stack), auma (stack). (various references)

French

Meule. (various references)

German

Schober (barn, hayrick, haystack), Rick, Getreide (cereal, corn, crop, grain). (various references)

Greek 

Σωρόσ, Στραμπουλίζω Ελαφρά, Θημωνιά, θημωνιά (hay cock, hay stack, hayrick, haystack, shock, stack, stook). (various references)

Hebrew 

׀קע. (various references)

Hungarian

Ficam (abarticulation, luxation, sprain, wrench), Boglya (stack). (various references)

Italian

Rick, Pagliaio (haystack, haystacks, straw stack), Cumulo (bank, chunkily, clam, clamp, clot, clots, cumulus, drift, heap, hoard, lump, mound, pile), cumuli di fieno (stack), Covone (sheaf), bica di fieno (stack). (various references)

Manx

sheeyney mwannallagh, sheeyney (dilation, elongate, extension, give, hand, increase, lengthen, lengthening, marry, pass, produce, production, prolongation, prostrate, prostration, range, spin out, sprain, spraining, spread, strain, stretch, stretch out, stretching, tension, uncoil), ruck (haycock), eekad (columnar rock in sea, small stack), eek (small stack), eeckey, creaghag. (various references)

Pig Latin

ickray.(various references)

Portuguese

meda (stack, stook). (various references)

Romanian

Stog (mow, stack), Claie (crowd, fleece, hayrick, haystack, heap, shock, snag, stack), şirã. (various references)

Russian 

рик, Стог, Скирда, � астяжение. (various references)

Scottish

ruc (rick of hay or corn). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

stog (goaf, mow, stack), plast (haystack, mow, stack). (various references)

Spanish

Almiar (haycock, hayrick, haystack, mow, stack). (various references)

Swedish

stack (ant hill, heap, pile, stack, stung), höstack (hayrick, haystack). (various references)

Thai

กองหญ้าแห้ง, ทำให้เป็นกอง. (various references)

Turkish

Tınaz (stack), Saman Yığını, Kuru Ot Yığını (hayrick, haystack, Pike), Burkulma (sprain, strain, twist, wrench, wrick), Burkmak (distort, luxate, sprain, strain, turn, twist, wrench, wrick), Bükülme (contortion, distorsion, flection, flexion, torsion, twist, wrench, wrick). (various references)

Ukrainian

Стіг, Скиртувати, Скирта, � озтягти, � озтягнення. (various references)

Vietnamese 

đụn (hill, hillock), đống (hill, hillock, monticle, monticule, mound, mow). (various references)

Welsh

tas (stack), das (stack), curnen (core, mound), curn (core, mound), bera (pyramid). (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "rick": ricked, ricketier, ricketiest, rickets, rickettsia, rickettsiae, rickettsial, rickettsias, rickety, rickey, rickeys, ricking, rickrack, rickracks, ricks, ricksha, rickshas, rickshaw, rickshaws. (additional references)

Words ending with "rick": baldrick, brick, crick, derrick, firebrick, goldbrick, hayrick, limerick, maverick, outtrick, overtrick, pinprick, prick, redbrick, strick, trick, undertrick, wrick. (additional references)

Words containing "rick": awestricken, baldricks, brickbat, brickbats, bricked, brickfield, brickfields, brickier, brickiest, bricking, bricklayer, bricklayers, bricklaying, bricklayings, brickle, brickles, bricks, brickwork, brickworks, bricky, brickyard, brickyards, cricked, cricket, cricketed, cricketer, cricketers, cricketing, crickets, crickey, cricking, cricks, derricks, firebricks, goldbricked, goldbricking, goldbricks, hayricks, jinricksha, jinrickshas, limericks, mavericks, misstricken, outtricked, outtricking, outtricks, overtricks, pinpricked, pinpricking, pinpricks, pricked. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Rick" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Druick, Eijck, Fick, Krick, Kricka, Ricco, rikk, Rikke, risck, Ryco. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-1 letter: ick, irk, kir.

+1 letter: brick, chirk, crick, icker, prick, ricks, trick, wrick.

+2 letters: bicker, bricks, bricky, cakier, chirks, cricks, crikey, crojik, dicker, ickers, ickier, karmic, kicker, kirsch, licker, nicker, picker, pricks, pricky, ricked, rickey, schrik, sicker, strick, ticker, tricks, tricky, wicker, wricks.

+3 letters: airsick, arcking, arkosic, bickers, bricked, brickle, carking, carsick, chirked, chirker, chokier, clarkia, clicker, clinker, cockier, corkier, corking, cricked, cricket, crickey, crinkle, crinkly, crojiks, derrick, dickers, dickier, dornick, duckier, fickler, flicker, hayrick, hickory, karstic, keramic, kickers, kickier, lickers, luckier, mickler, muckier, nickers, peckier, pickeer, pickers, pickier, pockier, pricked, pricker, pricket, prickle, prickly, quicker, racking, recking, rickets, rickety, rickeys, ricking, ricksha, rimrock, rockier, rocking, rollick, rucking, schriks, shicker, slicker, snicker, sticker, stricks, tackier, thicker, tickers, tickler, tricked, tricker, trickie, trickle, trickly, tricksy, tripack, wackier, whicker, wickers, wricked, yuckier.