Definition of "neck"

neck¹

/nɛk/

noun
plural necks
1. (anatomy) The part of the body connecting the head and the trunk found in humans and some animals.
2. The corresponding part in some other anatomical contexts.
3. The part of a shirt, dress etc., which fits a person's neck.
4. The tapered part of a bottle toward the opening.
5. (botany) The slender tubelike extension atop an archegonium, through which the sperm swim to reach the egg.
  Quotations
  Archegonia are surrounded early in their development by the juvenile perianth, through the slender beak of which the elongated neck of the fertilized archegonium protrudes.
  1992, Rudolf M[athias] Schuster, The Hepaticae and Anthocerotae of North America: East of the Hundredth Meridian, volume V, New York, N.Y.: Columbia University Press, page 5
6. (music) The extension of any stringed instrument on which a fingerboard is mounted
7. A long narrow tract of land projecting from the main body, or a narrow tract connecting two larger tracts.
8. (engineering) A reduction in size near the end of an object, formed by a groove around it.
9. The constriction between the root and crown of a tooth.
10. (architecture) The gorgerin of a capital.
11. (geology) A volcanic plug, solidified lava filling the vent of an extinct volcano.
12. (firearms) The small part of a gun between the chase and the swell of the muzzle.
13. (figurative) A person's life.
14. (informal, MLE, slang) A falsehood; a lie.
15. (slang) Fellatio
  Quotations
  Shorty throw neck like a geeseShe make me speak Portuguese
  2016, “Pimptations”, performed by Smino
  She drop neck for a check and a paystub
  2018, “Florida Thang”, in The South Got Something To Say, performed by Pouya
16. (now historical) A bundle of wheat used in certain English harvest ceremonies.
  Quotations
  The person with 'the neck' stands in the centre, grasping it with both his hands
  1837, R. A. R., The Everyday Book, page 1169
  "The neck" is generally hung up in the farmhouse, where it remains for two or three years.
  1911, James George Frazer, The Golden Bough, volume 7, page 266
verb
third-person singular simple present necks, present participle necking, simple past and past participle necked
1. (transitive, slang) To hang by the neck; strangle; kill, eliminate.
2. (intransitive, informal, chiefly US) To make love; to intently kiss or cuddle; to canoodle.
  Quotations
  Molly had been in love with Sick Boy since he necked with her in a seedy disco-bar in Leith a few weeks ago. Sick Boy had made a drunken point about HIV transmission and to illustrate it had spent most of the night french-kissing her.
  1994 , Irvine Welsh, Trainspotting, London: Minerva, page 326
3. (transitive, slang) To drink or swallow rapidly.
  Quotations
  Actually, mostly I swan around in my silver sports car, necking drugs, and feeling sorry for myself.
  2005, Stephen Price, Monkey Man, page 146
  In the dim light, punters sit sipping raspberry-flavoured Tokyo martinis, losing the freestyle sushi off their chopsticks or necking Asahi beer.
  2006, Sarah Johnstone, Tom Masters, London
  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.
  2019 January 26, Kitty Empire [pseudonym], “The Streets review – the agony and ecstasy of a great everyman”, in Katharine Viner, editor, The Guardian‎, London: Guardian News & Media, archived from the original on 8 April 2019
4. (intransitive) To decrease in diameter.
  Quotations
  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.
  2007, John H. Bickford, Introduction to the Design and Behavior of Bolted Joints, page 272

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1. (folklore) A shapeshifting water spirit in Germanic mythology and folklore; a nix.

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