necklace
/ˈnɛklɪs
/noun
1An ornamental chain or string of beads, jewels, or links worn round the neck: a diamond necklace figurative the harbour with its necklace of lights...
- Patrick has black spiky hair and wears a beaded necklace around his neck.
- She placed her favorite gold necklace around her neck.
- She wore a matching pearl necklace and had a dark complexion with bright brown eyes.
Synonyms
chain, choker, necklet, beads, pearls, pendant, locket;
French rivière, sautoir, lavallière;
Maori hei-tiki
historical torc, torque, carcanet, negligée
2(In South Africa) a tyre doused or filled with petrol, placed round a victim’s neck and set alight.
verb [with object]
(In South Africa) kill (someone) with a tyre necklace.The angry residents, definitely frustrated with the law enforcement approach to their distress calls, after slaughtering the bandits, even necklaced the corpses with tyres so that they could torch them....
- ‘And in some ways the fear is that you will be necklaced here,’ he noted, ‘[that] you will have a flaming tire of lack of patriotism put around your neck.’
- To this, Rasulullah replied, ‘If you wish to be necklaced with a garland of fire, you may accept it.’