crick

The porch swing cricked five hundred times before Cat crawled under the covers next to her brother, and it was still cricking when she closed her eyes and fell asleep.

Joe Manchin is no country hick But he’s made many city folks sick With his waffles and whines And his coddling of mines: He’s changed horses while deep in the crick.

His effort to look anywhere else but in my direction is giving him a crick in the neck.

Or maybe she just had a crick in her neck.

Various courts have since let us know that nope, 'twas merely a small crick against the doomsday direction in which we were previously heading.