neck (n k)n.1. The part of the body joining the head to the shoulders or trunk. 2. The part of a garment around or near the neck. 3. Anatomy a. A narrow or constricted part of a structure, as of a bone or organ, that joins its parts; a cervix. b. The part of a tooth between the crown and the root. 4. A relatively narrow elongation, projection, or connecting part: a neck of land; the neck of a flask. 5. Music The narrow part along which the strings of an instrument extend to the pegs. 7. Geology Solidified lava filling the vent of an extinct volcano. 8. The siphon of a bivalve mollusk, such as a clam. 9. A narrow margin: won by a neck. v. necked, neck·ing, necks v.intr. Informal To kiss and caress amorously. v.tr. To strangle or decapitate (a fowl). Idioms: neck and neck So close that the lead between competitors is virtually indeterminable. up to (one's) neck Deeply involved or occupied fully: I'm up to my neck in paperwork.
[Middle English nekke, from Old English hnecca.]
neck less adj. | neck Devils Tower, Wyoming; the nation's first national monument, designated in 1906 |
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| Adj. | 1. | neckless - lacking or apparently lacking a necknecked - having a neck or having a neck especially as specified (often used in combination) |