Definitions
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective lacking or apparently lacking a neck; -- of a garment.
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- adjective Without a
neck .
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- adjective lacking or apparently lacking a neck
Etymologies
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Examples
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# Davidon 20 May 2009 at 1: 56 pm anyways so if the neckless thing is no good what other begining could i use then?
Superhero Nation: how to write superhero novels and comic books » David’s Second Review Forum 2009
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For starters they would run around in circles of insanity trying to reattach their empty heads to their neckless shoulders shouting assinine comments about liberals while trying to stop their drooling.
Think Progress » National Review ‘symposium’ on black unemployment has no black participants. 2010
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From my window I can see myself on the other side of the world, almost neckless, in a place where I don't have a shadow, where my fingers are fused to the keyboard forever and my tongue licks the screen hoping to pick up those very last pixels that escaped my wandering attention.
Rites of Spring Marcus Speh 2011
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Enjoyment of any game these days is bound to be regularly disturbed by some bloke, generally so wide, vast and neckless that if he sprayed himself green he'd be a dead-ringer for Thunderbird 2, who apparently suffers from a medical condition that means he has to eat a hamburger and fries every 15 minutes or he will lapse into a coma.
Sheepskin-wearing seating bores get my goat | Harry Pearson 2011
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Everyone in the joint was fat and neckless and looked like they wanted to fight if you made eye contact—even the women.
Dead Zero Stephen Hunter 2010
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She looked like one of those overpadded, neckless football linemen, except in heavy navy tweed.
As Husbands Go Susan Isaacs 2010
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MarkBaynard: Not even the neckless jock who stole my lunch money and my briefcase and stuffed me in my own locker in the 7th grade.
Goodnight Tweetheart Teresa Medeiros 2010
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She looked like one of those overpadded, neckless football linemen, except in heavy navy tweed.
As Husbands Go Susan Isaacs 2010
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It was a frog-like being, in the same fashion as the charr were cat-like: bipedal, a great-mouthed head topping a round, neckless body.
Guild Wars: Ghosts of Ascalon Matt Forbeck 2010
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Everyone in the joint was fat and neckless and looked like they wanted to fight if you made eye contact—even the women.
Dead Zero Stephen Hunter 2010
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