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Neck

noun

The part of an organism (human or animal) that connects the head to the rest of the body. Synonym: cervix. "The horse won by a neck"

A narrow elongated projecting strip of land.

A cut of meat from the neck of an animal.

A narrow part of an artifact that resembles a neck in position or form. "The bottle had a wide neck"

An opening in a garment for the neck of the wearer; a part of the garment near the wearer's neck. Synonym: neck opening.

verb

(past & past part. necked; pres. part. necking)

Kiss, embrace, or fondle with sexual passion. Synonym: make out.

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"Neck" Quotes from Famous Books

... to recall to Tseretelli these words which I had addressed to him in May, when he was occupied in persecuting the Kronstadt sailors: "When a counter-revolutionary general attempts to throw the noose around the neck; of the revolution, the Cadets will grease the rope with soap, while the Kronstadt sailors will come to fight ...

— From October to Brest-Litovsk • Leon Trotzky

... at Reddy's feet, Granny crowded another until she did the same thing, and just the same thing happened once more. Then Granny jumped lightly down, picked up one of the hens by the neck, slung the body over her shoulder, and told Reddy to do the same with the ...

— Old Granny Fox • Thornton W. Burgess

... was pretty, and very childish-looking, dressed in a red-coloured frock with short sleeves and low neck, as then worn by young girls. Miss Wooler in later years used to say that when Mary went to her as a pupil she thought her too pretty to live. She was not talkative at school, but industrious, and always ready ...

— Charlotte Bronte and Her Circle • Clement K. Shorter

... hear him speak in such a way, but her next act was the outgrowth of spontaneous gratitude. She flung both arms about his neck and being too short to reach his cheek, kissed him on the chin as she would have done had he been John. Tom trembled, but realized at the same time, that Polly's kiss meant nothing. Still he was humbly grateful for even that token of gratitude ...

— Polly's Business Venture • Lillian Elizabeth Roy

... be! But there it was, staring him in the face, and he could not blot out the memory of it. He fancied himself again getting a kid from amongst his flock; giving it to his mother to dress, so that his father would not know it from venison; stooping down, while she put on the back of his neck small pieces of the kid's skin, that it might feel, to the blind Isaac, like the hairy skin of his brother Esau; carrying in the smoking-hot dish; telling, one after another, gross falsehoods, in reply to the questions put by his puzzled father; repeating oft his assurances that he ...

— Little Folks (November 1884) - A Magazine for the Young • Various

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