Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun Architecture A molding between the upper part of a column and the projecting part of the capital.
- noun Informal The act of kissing and caressing.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In arch., the hypophyge or moldings often intervening between the projecting part of the capital of a column and the vertical part or shaft, as the annulets of the Doric capital: often used as a synonym of neck, though strictly a column may have a neck, but no necking. See cuts under
capital and column. - noun A neckhandkerchief or necktie.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun Same as
neckmold .
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb Present participle of
neck . - noun A behavior among male
giraffes where they hold combat for social dominance using their necks as weapons. - noun architecture A
neckmould .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun affectionate play (or foreplay without contact with the genital organs)
- noun the molding at the top of a column
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Examples
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A small (1/2 BLOCKQUOTE square) park near our house, known during the rest of the week as a favorite for necking, is transformed into a magic wonderland of food (raw and cooked), clothing, furniture and junk.
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It appears for the first time as an architectural decoration in a fragment of sculptured necking from the archaic Temple of
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As Groucho noted: "Whoever named it 'necking' was a poor judge of anatomy."
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He was interrupted in 'necking' bullets, for they were cast in a mold and left a little protuberance where the run left off.
The Lincoln Story Book Henry Llewellyn Williams
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He was interrupted in 'necking' bullets, for they were cast in a mold and left a little protuberance where the run left off.
The Lincoln Story Book Williams, Henry L 1907
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Little did I imagine that the gathering would turn into a red-hot "necking" party!
NPR Topics: News 2010
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Holden Caulfield, the protagonist in J.D. Salinger's 1951 novel "The Catcher in the Rye," never found out what was the matter with old Jane Gallagher, a girl he got close to "necking" one summer in Maine.
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The lower court also found that that Crown did not infringe Rexam's beverage can "necking" patent.
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The lower court also found that that Crown did not infringe Rexam's beverage can "necking" patent.
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A pseudoscientific chart from Sex Respect, a fear-based abstinence curriculum, depicts how male genitalia become aroused during "necking," while female genitalia lag behind until "petting."
Ms. Magazine Online 2009
bilby commented on the word necking
"Whoever named it necking was a poor judge of anatomy."
- Groucho Marx.
December 24, 2007