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- adjective Having a very thin neck.
- adjective idiomatic, US, pejorative Insubstantial; weak.
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Examples
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The thing I say most is "Hello, you pencil-necked collection of past failures."
Tom Matlack: Manologues: What Do You Say to Yourself When No One Is Around? Tom Matlack 2011
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Opie is no pencil-necked, pocket-protectored scientist.
Contact sports are attracting an older crowd Lenny Bernstein 2010
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“Why you little pencil-necked geek,” he said, drawing back his clenched fist like an archer drawing his bow.
The Bodice-Ripper Free School Zone Act Con Chapman 2011
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The thing I say most is "Hello, you pencil-necked collection of past failures."
Tom Matlack: Manologues: What Do You Say to Yourself When No One Is Around? Tom Matlack 2011
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“Why you little pencil-necked geek,” he said, drawing back his clenched fist like an archer drawing his bow.
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He is slowly transformed from a thirty-five-year-old California political consultant into a professional wrestler who has gotten an unfair call and is about to send the pencil-necked referee careening into the turnbuckle.
FLY FISHING WITH DARTH VADER MATT LABASH 2010
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MR COHEN, a tall, balding, pencil-necked New York native who used to call soccer games with George Stephanopoulos at Columbia, is the passionately opinionated baseball historian.
The Anti-Homers 2009
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I kinda doubt he'll put a pencil-necked geek who parts his hair in the middle on the ticket either.
Is Bobby Jindal -- Who May Be On McCain's Veep Shortlist -- An Exorcist? 2009
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Ned Lamont may be a pencil-necked geek, as Imus claims, but he is the type of candidate that will bring out the Democratic base in an off-year election.
Joe Scarborough: Why Lieberman's Loss is the Democrats' Gain 2009
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MR COHEN, a tall, balding, pencil-necked New York native who used to call soccer games with George Stephanopoulos at Columbia, is the passionately opinionated baseball historian.
The Anti-Homers 2009
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