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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

... band of Arabs, all of whom were mounted on camels. One of these creatures he was ordered to mount, the bonds being loosed from his arms and feet. An Arab driver, with lance, bows, and arrows, and other weapons, took his seat on the neck of the animal, and then with scarcely a word the caravan marched off with noiseless step, and with their faces ...

— The Boy Knight • G.A. Henty

... weeping got a little redness about them, her round sweetly swelling lips a little trembling, as though they kissed their neighbor Death; in her cheeks the whiteness striving by little and little to get upon the rosiness of them; her neck, a neck indeed of alabaster, displaying the wound which with most dainty blood labored to drown his own beauties; so as here was a river of purest red, there an island of perfectest ...

— Brief History of English and American Literature • Henry A. Beers

... back and adjusted his fur-trimmed coat. The plume that fell from his cap kept tickling his neck, and he brushed at ...

— That Sweet Little Old Lady • Gordon Randall Garrett (AKA Mark Phillips)

... occipitalis) and the yellow-billed blue-magpie (U. flavirostris). These are distinguishable one from the other mainly by the colour of the beak. A blue-magpie is a bird over 2 feet in length, of which the fine tail accounts for three-fourths. The head, neck, and breast are black, and the remainder of the plumage is a beautiful blue with handsome white markings. It is quite unnecessary to describe the blue-magpie in detail. It is impossible to mistake it. Even a blind man cannot fail to notice it because of its loud ringing call. East of Simla the red-billed ...

— Birds of the Indian Hills • Douglas Dewar

... most carefully into her little wheeled chair and no queen ever held a court with more dignity than she assumed as she smoothed into place the folds of her grandma's snowy kerchief, which she wore about her neck. ...

— Little Prudy's Sister Susy • Sophie May

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