Usually means: Connection between head and torso.
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We found 61 dictionaries that define the word neck:

General (29 matching dictionaries)
  1. neck: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. neck, neck: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. neck: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. neck: Collins English Dictionary
  5. neck: Vocabulary.com
  6. Neck, neck: Wordnik
  7. neck: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. Neck, Neck, Neck, Neck, Neck, Neck, Neck, Neck, Neck, Neck, Neck, Neck, Neck, Neck, Neck, Neck, Neck, Neck: InfoVisual Visual Dictionary
  9. neck: Wiktionary
  10. neck: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. neck: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. neck: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. Neck, neck: Dictionary.com
  14. neck: Online Etymology Dictionary
  15. neck: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  16. Neck (band), Neck (disambiguation), Neck (film), Neck (music), Neck (short story), Neck (water spirit), Neck, The Neck (British Columbia): Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  17. Neck: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  18. neck: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  19. neck: Rhymezone
  20. neck: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  21. neck: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  22. neck: MyWord.info
  23. Neck: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)
  24. neck: Free Dictionary
  25. neck: Mnemonic Dictionary
  26. neck: Dictionary/thesaurus
  27. neck: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Virginia Tech Multimedia Music Dictionary (No longer online)

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. The Neck, neck: Encyclopedia

Medicine (9 matching dictionaries)
  1. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. Neck: MedTerms.com Medical Dictionary
  3. Neck: Merck Manuals
  4. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  5. Neck, Neck, Neck: Anatomy of the Human Body
  6. Probert Encyclopaedia of Medicine (No longer online)
  7. Neck: Gray's Anatomy (1918)
  8. The Neck, neck: Medical dictionary
  9. Neck: Drug Medical Dictionary

Miscellaneous (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Brilliant Dream Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. NECK: Acronym Finder
  3. neck: Idioms

Religion (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Neck: Easton Bible

Science (7 matching dictionaries)
  1. neck: LITTLE EXPLORERS(TM) Picture Dictionary
  2. Archaeology Wordsmith (No longer online)
  3. Neck: LITHICS-NET's Glossary of Lithics Terminology
  4. Botanical Terms (No longer online)
  5. Bryological (No longer online)
  6. Anthropology dictionary (No longer online)
  7. How Many? A Dictionary of Units of Measurement (No longer online)

Slang (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. Neck (offensive): Racial Slur Database
  2. neck, neck: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  3. neck: English slang and colloquialisms used in the United Kingdom
  4. NECK, The Neck, neck: Urban Dictionary

Sports (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Hickok Sports Glossaries (No longer online)
  2. neck: Golfer's Dictionary

Tech (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. AUTOMOTIVE TERMS (No longer online)
  2. Glossary of Fastener Terms (No longer online)
  3. SeaTalk Dictionary of English Nautical Language (No longer online)
  4. Sweetwater Music (No longer online)

(Note: See necked as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  (anatomy) The part of the body connecting the head and the trunk found in humans and some animals.
noun:  The corresponding part in some other anatomical contexts.
noun:  The part of a shirt, dress etc., which fits a person's neck.
noun:  The tapered part of a bottle toward the opening.
noun:  (botany) The slender tubelike extension atop an archegonium, through which the sperm swim to reach the egg.
noun:  (music) The extension of any stringed instrument on which a fingerboard is mounted
noun:  A long narrow tract of land projecting from the main body, or a narrow tract connecting two larger tracts.
noun:  (engineering) A reduction in size near the end of an object, formed by a groove around it.
noun:  The constriction between the root and crown of a tooth.
noun:  (architecture) The gorgerin of a capital.
noun:  (geology) A volcanic plug, solidified lava filling the vent of an extinct volcano.
noun:  (firearms) The small part of a gun between the chase and the swell of the muzzle.
noun:  (figurative) A person's life.
noun:  (informal, MLE, slang) A falsehood; a lie.
noun:  (slang) Fellatio
noun:  (now historical) A bundle of wheat used in certain English harvest ceremonies.
verb:  (transitive, slang) To hang by the neck; strangle; kill, eliminate.
verb:  (intransitive, informal, chiefly US) To make love; to intently kiss or cuddle; to canoodle.
verb:  (transitive, slang) To drink or swallow rapidly.
verb:  (intransitive) To decrease in diameter.
noun:  (folklore) A shapeshifting water spirit in Germanic mythology and folklore; a nix.

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