bull-necked
adjective
having a short, thick neck.
bullnecked
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a variation of
bull-necked.
Example Sentences
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Standing beside me, jammed behind TV cameras, was a bullnecked fellow named Esteban Martinez.
From The New Yorker ● May 27, 2019
The amped-up crowd was thick with bullnecked men in T-shirts or lapel pins marking them as off-duty cops and firemen.
From Slate ● Apr. 7, 2016
Morgan, on the other hand, was famously described by John Dos Passos as “a bullnecked irascible man with small black magpie’s eyes and a growth on his nose.”
From New York Times ● Feb. 13, 2012
Ohio State took the opening kickoff and turned loose a bullnecked, bulldozing fullback named Bob White.
From Time Magazine Archive
A good-natured, shaved-headed, bullnecked older black man named Kirkley taught a class called Use of Force, in which we learned when it was okay to lay our hands on somebody.
From "Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing" by Ted Conover
