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- noun Any
bone in theneck ; often of poultry, in cooking.
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Examples
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According to Calhoun, Questlove ordered up some of that finger-lickin 'good chicken, a little neckbone mixed with some black eyed peas (perhaps Fergie should be the one pissed off?) and then, incredulous, stepped off the line to post a picture of the controversial menu to his 1.2 million Twitter followers ... causing a stir both in cyberspace and in NBC-commissaryspace.
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According to Calhoun, Questlove ordered up some of that finger-lickin 'good chicken, a little neckbone mixed with some black eyed peas (perhaps Fergie should be the one pissed off?) and then, incredulous, stepped off the line to post a picture of the controversial menu to his 1.2 million Twitter followers ... causing a stir both in cyberspace and in NBC-commissaryspace.
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Shrimp bisque or neckbone soup (popular here in the south but I know many Americans would never touch it so that one might be a risk.)
What to bring? 2005
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Last week the specials were fairly strange, neckbone one day, fried catfish another day, and etouffee (sp?).
marilynnv Diary Entry marilynnv 2006
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If two or more of us agree on a time, it's on like a neckbone.
wilberteets Diary Entry wilberteets 2006
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“Dragged by my feet through the street neckbone, headbone”
Truck Route 1 & 9 2005
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A chunk of lard tied in paper dark with grease, a brown piece of smoke-cured hog neckbone, some parched corn, about a cup of soup beans twisted in a square of paper, a leek and a turnip and three carrots, a bar of lye soap.
Cold Mountain Frazier, Charles, 1950- Cold Mountain 2003
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This 8-year-old girl was dragged out into these woods and her throat slit ear to ear, almost to her neckbone, by, police say, it was her stepfather.
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First out of the earth was a skull, followed by a shoulder bone and a neckbone.
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A chunk of lard tied in paper dark with grease, a brown piece of smoke-cured hog neckbone, some parched corn, about a cup of soup beans twisted in a square of paper, a leek and a turnip and three carrots, a bar of lye soap.
Cold Mountain Frazier, Charles, 1950- Cold Mountain 1997
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