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Neck

Noun

Definitions

1.NounThe part of the body connecting the head and the trunk found in humans and some animals.
"Giraffes have long necks."
2.NounThe corresponding part in some other anatomical contexts.
3.NounThe part of a shirt, dress etc., which fits a person's neck.
4.NounThe tapered part of a bottle toward the opening.
5.NounThe slender tubelike extension atop an archegonium, through which the sperm swim to reach the egg.
6.NounThe extension of any stringed instrument on which a fingerboard is mounted
7.NounA long narrow tract of land projecting from the main body, or a narrow tract connecting two larger tracts.
8.NounA reduction in size near the end of an object, formed by a groove around it.
"a neck forming the journal of a shaft"
9.NounThe constriction between the root and crown of a tooth.
10.NounThe gorgerin of a capital.
11.NounA volcanic plug, solidified lava filling the vent of an extinct volcano.
12.NounThe small part of a gun between the chase and the swell of the muzzle.
13.NounA person's life.
"to risk one's neck; to save someone's neck"
14.NounA falsehood; a lie.
15.NounFellatio
16.NounA bundle of wheat used in certain English harvest ceremonies.
17.VerbTo hang by the neck; strangle; kill, eliminate.
"Go neck yourself."
18.VerbTo intently kiss or cuddle; to canoodle.
"Alan and Betty were necking in the back of a car when Betty's dad caught them."
19.VerbTo drink or swallow rapidly.
20.VerbTo decrease in diameter.
21.NounA shapeshifting water spirit in Germanic mythology and folklore; a nix.
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