Usually means: Flexible neck for adjustable positioning.
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We found 28 dictionaries that define the word gooseneck:

General (17 matching dictionaries)
  1. gooseneck: Merriam-Webster
  2. gooseneck: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. gooseneck: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. gooseneck: Collins English Dictionary
  5. gooseneck: Vocabulary.com
  6. Gooseneck, gooseneck: Wordnik
  7. gooseneck: Wiktionary
  8. gooseneck: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  9. gooseneck: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  10. gooseneck: Infoplease Dictionary
  11. gooseneck: Dictionary.com
  12. Gooseneck (piping), Gooseneck (sailing), Gooseneck: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  13. gooseneck: Rhymezone
  14. gooseneck: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  15. gooseneck: FreeDictionary.org
  16. gooseneck: Mnemonic Dictionary
  17. gooseneck: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. eyefortransport e-commerce transportation glossary (No longer online)

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. gooseneck: Encyclopedia

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Gooseneck: Urban Dictionary

Sports (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Gooseneck: Sports Definitions

Tech (7 matching dictionaries)
  1. AUTOMOTIVE TERMS (No longer online)
  2. Lake and Water Word Glossary (No longer online)
  3. Schlumberger Oilfield Glossary (No longer online)
  4. Oil and Gas Well Drilling and Servicing eTool (No longer online)
  5. SeaTalk Dictionary of English Nautical Language (No longer online)
  6. Sweetwater Music (No longer online)
  7. Gooseneck: Latitude Mexico

(Note: See goosenecked as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (gooseneck)

noun:  (often attributive) Anything with a slender curved shape, resembling the neck of a goose, such as the shaft of some lamps.
noun:  (nautical) The swivel connection on a sailboat located near the bottom of the mast that the boom attaches to. When a sailboat performs a tack or a jibe the gooseneck swings the boom from one side of the boat to the other.
noun:  Short for gooseneck barnacle. [Any of the species Pollicipes pollicipes or its close relatives, filter-feeding crustaceans that live attached to hard surfaces of rocks and flotsam in the ocean intertidal zone, with a long and muscular stalk, which is edible and considered a delicacy in several Mediterranean countries.]

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