[
US
/ˈnɛkt/
]
[ UK /nˈɛkt/ ]
[ UK /nˈɛkt/ ]
ADJECTIVE
- having a neck or having a neck especially as specified (often used in combination)
How To Use necked In A Sentence
- Though stiff-necked and officious, the commanders aren't demonized nor singled out for blame.
- It is with narrow-minded people as with narrow-necked bottle; the less they have in them the more noise they make in pouring out.
- On either side of the white marble fireplace were swan-necked gas lamps that still worked. Times, Sunday Times
- At Ngarkat and Karte conservation parks, you can see everything from ring-necked parrots, honeyeaters and white-winged choughs, to Australian bustards, yellow-tailed black cockatoos and sometimes even a rare Mallee emu-wren or the Mallee ningaui.
- The swine looked even more attractive than ever in a black open-necked polo shirt and black jeans.
- The figure wearing dark suit, open-necked shirt and stubble, sheltering beneath an umbrella from the torrential rain outside a London cinema, could hardly look more glum.
- Her credibility has lost out to her desperate desire to be liked, even if it is by bull-necked honkers in shirts made of the stars and stripes.
- We meet Gaspar, the bull-necked boss of the local Maquis, obviously still enraged by the compliance of his neighbours.
- Sometimes seen feeding alongside vultures at carcasses is the longer-necked and larger-headed crested caracara (Polyborus plancus), a hawk with distinctive markings. Did you know? Mexico's vultures have very different eating habits.
- But the stiff-necked jerk never called, and cricket has gone doolally as a result.