necknoun [ C ]
uk/nek/us/nek/neck noun [ C ] (BODY PART)
A2 the part of the body that joins the head to the shoulders:
He had the thickest neck I'd ever seen.
She wore a gold chain around her neck.
C2 the part of a piece of clothing that goes around a person's neck:
This sweater's too tight in the neck.
He wasn't wearing a tie and his shirt was open at the neck.
a low-neck dress
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- She wears a gold cross round her neck.
- That child is a real pain in the neck.
- Sitting still at a computer terminal all day can give you a stiff neck.
- She flung her arms around his neck.
- He peeled the label off the neck of the bottle.
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The head & face
- -cheeked
- -chinned
- -faced
- chin
- countenance
- dimple
- facial
- facies
- frontalis
- hairline
- mandible
- mug
- nape
- nose
- nucha
- nuchal
- pes anserinus
- splenius
- temple
- temporal
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You can also find related words, phrases, and synonyms in the topics:
The head & neck of non-human animals
Parts of clothes
neck noun [ C ] (TOP PART)
part of a hollow object that is at the top and is narrower than the part below it:
the neck of a bottle/guitar
specialized medical a narrow part of a body part:
cancer of the neck of the uterus
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Words meaning parts of things
- back end
- bifurcation
- body
- branch
- cartridge
- chunk
- compartment
- element
- item
- module
- piece
- section
- segment
- segmental
- side
- snatch
- spare
- sub
- subsection
- third
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See also
bottleneck
halterneck
redneck
roughneck
turtleneck
Idiom(s)
be up to your neck (in sth)
be up to your neck in sth
get it in the neck
neck and neck
this, our, etc. neck of the woods
put your neck on the line
neckverb [ I ]
uk/nek/us/nek/old-fashioned informalneck verb [ I ] (KISS)
to kiss and hold a person in a sexual way
neck verb [ I ] (DRINK)
UK informal to drink something, especially alcohol, very quickly:
He's necked two bottles of wine already.