longneck

[lawng-nek, long-]

noun

Chiefly Texas.

1. a bottle of beer.

longneck

/ ˈlɒŋˌnɛk /

noun

1. 1. a 330-ml beer bottle with a long narrow neck

   2. ( as modifier )

      a longneck bottle

Word History and Origins

Origin of longneck¹

1885–90, for an earlier sense; long ¹ + neck

Example Sentences

Up came the smiling head and extremely longneck of a life-size Apatosaurus—what everybody used to call a Brontosaurus, thanks to The Flintstones.

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The movie turned the Pasadena club into an overnight tourist draw and popularized pearl snap shirts, longneck beers, the steel guitar and mechanical bulls across the country.

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Nursing a longneck Bud, “Bob was thinking about the moon,” writes Jim Tankersley in his book, “The Riches of This Land.”

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The singer’s collaborator for “Longneck Bottle,” Steve Wariner, reacted to the news on Wednesday and tweeted, "If you’ve ever seen @garthbrooks live, you know why he consistently wins ‘Entertainer of the Year.'"

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The beer-soaked, sun-stroked reality of the larrikin steps into frame in 4573, a brilliant, blistering jam that paints a familiar scene: a man, four longneck lagers in, screaming his head off from the sidelines at a local kids’ football game.

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