Usually means: Stubbornly resistant to authority, change.
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  1. stiff-necked: Merriam-Webster
  2. stiff-necked: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. stiff-necked: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. stiff-necked, stiff-necked: Collins English Dictionary
  5. stiff-necked: Vocabulary.com
  6. stiff-necked: Wordnik
  7. stiff-necked: Wiktionary
  8. stiff-necked: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  9. stiff-necked: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  10. stiff-necked: Infoplease Dictionary
  11. stiff-necked: Dictionary.com
  12. Stiff-necked: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  13. stiff-necked: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  14. stiff-necked: Rhymezone
  15. Stiff-necked: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  16. stiff-necked: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  17. stiff-necked: FreeDictionary.org
  18. stiff-necked: Mnemonic Dictionary
  19. stiff-necked: TheFreeDictionary.com

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▸ adjective:  (literally) Having a stiff neck; suffering from torticollis
▸ adjective:  (figuratively) Stubborn and arrogant.

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