necks
Dictionary
noun
- The part of the body connecting the head and the trunk found in humans and some animals.
"Giraffes have long necks."
- The corresponding part in some other anatomical contexts.
- The part of a shirt, dress etc., which fits a person's neck.
- The tapered part of a bottle toward the opening.
- The slender tubelike extension atop an archegonium, through which the sperm swim to reach the egg.
- The extension of any stringed instrument on which a fingerboard is mounted
- A long narrow tract of land projecting from the main body, or a narrow tract connecting two larger tracts.
- A reduction in size near the end of an object, formed by a groove around it.
"a neck forming the journal of a shaft"
- The constriction between the root and crown of a tooth.
- The gorgerin of a capital.
- The small part of a gun between the chase and the swell of the muzzle.
- A person's life.
"to risk one's neck; to save someone's neck"
- A falsehood; a lie.
- Shapeshifting water spirits in Germanic mythology and folklore
verb
- To hang by the neck; strangle; kill, eliminate
"Go neck yourself."
- To make love; to intently kiss or cuddle; to canoodle.
"Alan and Betty were necking in the back of a car when Betty's dad caught them."
- To drink rapidly.
- To decrease in diameter.
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