neck
//ˈnɛk//
Forms
- Plural
- necks
- present (v1)
- neck
- past (v2)
- necked
- past participle (v3)
- necked
- present participle
- necking
- 3rd person singular
- necks
Definitions
1.The part of the body connecting the head and the trunk found in humans and some animals.
- Mother, help me, there's a head attached to my neck and I'm in it.
2.The corresponding part in some other anatomical contexts.
3.The tapered part of a bottle toward the opening.
4.The part of a shirt, dress etc., which fits a person's neck.
1.To intently kiss or cuddle; to canoodle.(informal)
- Alan and Betty were necking in the back of a car when Betty's dad caught them.
2.To drink or swallow rapidly.(slang)
- Actually, mostly I swan around in my silver sports car, necking drugs, and feeling sorry for myself.
- In the dim light, punters sit sipping raspberry-flavoured Tokyo martinis, losing the freestyle sushi off their chopsticks or necking Asahi beer.
- The 40-year-old [Mike Skinner] is happy to put his body on the line in other ways, swapping a mug of tea for a fan's double pint of lager and messily necking it in one.
3.To decrease in diameter.
- Since this temperature would place the bolt in its creep range, it will slowly stretch, necking down as it does so. Eventually it will get too thin to support the weight, and the bolt will break.
4.To hang by the neck; strangle; kill, eliminate.(slang)
Frequency
Overall
Common· #1753
By learning goal
- Everyday conversation
- Uncommon
- General reading & writing
- Uncommon
- Academic
- Rare
- Literature
- Common
Etymology
From Middle English nekke, nakke, from Old English hnecca, *hnæcca (“neck, nape”), from Proto-West Germanic *hnakkō, from Proto-Germanic *hnakkô (“nape, neck”), from Proto-Indo-European *knog-, *kneg- (“back of the head, nape, neck”).