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from The Century Dictionary.

  • Having a red neck.

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Examples

  • The Tasmanians subsisted largely by hunting seals, red-necked wallabies (a close relative of the kangaroo), and wombats (a four-legged, furry marsupial).

    In the Valley of the Shadow James L. Kugel 2011

  • American culture as the white-trash Christian Israel, with a blond-haired, blue-eyed, red-necked war-hero as its golden boy king, victorious over the cultural aristos of the power elite and the raghead Philistines who are, after all, pretty much just “The Enemy” in the original text.

    Archive 2009-04-01 Hal Duncan 2009

  • The Tasmanians subsisted largely by hunting seals, red-necked wallabies (a close relative of the kangaroo), and wombats (a four-legged, furry marsupial).

    In the Valley of the Shadow James L. Kugel 2011

  • This C-C-C-COMBO BREAKER is brought to you by the fact that the “Sanctity of Marriage” concept has nothing to do with people being tasteless, inbred, or of the red-necked variety.

    Sanctity of marriage | My[confined]Space 2009

  • How about if we send all of the ignorant, loud-mouthed, red-necked racists TO Mexico and let all of the hard-woking, but illegal, Mexicans stay and become legal?

    Senate Democrats to push new immigration reform plan 2010

  • From the stories I heard, the thing killed almost as many critters as a North Dakota winter ... toward the end there Elmer posed as much danger to the shooter as he did the target, so he found an easy retirement above a doorway with the firing pins welded up ... and every time somebody new see's him, the question is posed, "What the hell is that red-necked contraption ...?"

    Do you name your guns? 2009

  • The Tasmanians subsisted largely by hunting seals, red-necked wallabies (a close relative of the kangaroo), and wombats (a four-legged, furry marsupial).

    In the Valley of the Shadow James L. Kugel 2011

  • The Tasmanians subsisted largely by hunting seals, red-necked wallabies (a close relative of the kangaroo), and wombats (a four-legged, furry marsupial).

    In the Valley of the Shadow James L. Kugel 2011

  • From the stories I heard, the thing killed almost as many critters as a North Dakota winter ... toward the end there Elmer posed as much danger to the shooter as he did the target, so he found an easy retirement above a doorway with the firing pins welded up ... and every time somebody new see's him, the question is posed, "What the hell is that red-necked contraption ...?"

    Do you name your guns? 2009

  • “This C-C-C-COMBO BREAKER is brought to you by the fact that the “Sanctity of Marriage” concept has nothing to do with people being tasteless, inbred, or of the red-necked variety.”

    Sanctity of marriage | My[confined]Space 2009

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