neck and neck
Very close in progress, as in a race or a contest.
The polls suggest that the candidates were neck and neck in the election.
neck
/nɛk/
noun 6verb 4
Collocations
4ADJ.
bad, foolish, over, round, stiff, tight
She wore a tight neck sweater that made her uncomfortable all day long.
VERB + NECK
attached, broke, don't, elongated, go, horse, risk, saw
The giraffe's elongated neck allowed it to reach leaves high up in the trees.
NECK + NOUN
i'm, something, yourself
I'm sticking my neck out here, but I think we should try a completely different approach.
PREP.
around, in, in, out, upon
She wore a beautiful silk scarf around her neck during the summer picnic.
Definitions
noun
1
The part of the body connecting the head and the trunk found in humans and some animals.
Giraffes have long necks.
Mother, help me, there's a head attached to my neck and I'm in it.
2
The corresponding part in some other anatomical contexts.
3
The part of a shirt, dress etc., which fits a person's neck.
4
The tapered part of a bottle toward the opening.
5
The slender tubelike extension atop an archegonium, through which the sperm swim to reach the egg.
Archegonia are surrounded early in their development by the juvenile perianth, through the slender beak of which the elongated neck of the fertilized archegonium protrudes.
verb
1
To hang by the neck; strangle; kill, eliminate.
Go neck yourself.
2
To intently kiss or cuddle; to canoodle.
Alan and Betty were necking in the back of a car when Betty's dad caught them.
Molly had been in love with Sick Boy since he necked with her in a seedy disco-bar in Leith a few weeks ago. Sick Boy had made a drunken point about HIV transmission and to illustrate it had spent most of the night french-kissing her.
3
To drink or swallow rapidly.
Actually, mostly I swan around in my silver sports car, necking drugs, and feeling sorry for myself.
In the dim light, punters sit sipping raspberry-flavoured Tokyo martinis, losing the freestyle sushi off their chopsticks or necking Asahi beer.
4
To decrease in diameter.
Since this temperature would place the bolt in its creep range, it will slowly stretch, necking down as it does so. Eventually it will get too thin to support the weight, and the bolt will break.
noun
1
A shapeshifting water spirit in Germanic mythology and folklore; a nix.
The Neck no more upon the river sings. And no Mermaid to bleach her linen flings Upon the waves in the mild solar ray.
The beautiful Nix or Nixie who allures the young fisher or hunter to seek her embraces in the wave which brings his death, the Neck who seizes upon and drowns the maidens who sport upon his banks, the river-spirit who still yearly in some parts of Germany demands tribute of human life, are all forms of the ancient Nicor[.]
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noun — the part of an organism (human or animal) that connects the
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Idioms & Phrases
pain in the neck
Someone or something which is annoying, irritating or inconvenient.
Got to know McTodd, found he wasn’t coming to the castle, and came down instead of him, same as me. Only he got there first, damn him! Wouldn’t that give you a pain in the neck!”
neck of the woods
A local neighbourhood or region.
breathe down someone's neck
To follow or supervise someone too closely, causing discomfort for that person.
My boss never lets me get on with my work. He's always breathing down my neck and checking up on me.
stick one's neck out
To take a risk, putting oneself in a vulnerable position.
Uncle Tom's study was a place I seldom entered during my visits to Brinkley Court, because when I did go there he always grabbed me and started to talk about old silver, whereas if
Example Bank
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Giraffes have long necks.
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Mother, help me, there's a head attached to my neck and I'm in it.
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Archegonia are surrounded early in their development by the juvenile perianth, through the slender beak of which the elongated neck of the fertilized archegonium protrudes.
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Go neck yourself.
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Alan and Betty were necking in the back of a car when Betty's dad caught them.
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Molly had been in love with Sick Boy since he necked with her in a seedy disco-bar in Leith a few weeks ago. Sick Boy had made a drunken point about HIV transmission and to illustrate it had spent mos
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