neck

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.

The corresponding part in some other anatomical contexts.

The part of a shirt, dress etc., which fits a person's neck.

The tapered part of a bottle toward the opening.

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.

To hang by the neck; strangle; kill, eliminate.

Go neck yourself.

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.

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.

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.

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[.]