necked

[nekt]

adjective

1. having a neck of a kind specified (usually used in combination).

   a square-necked blouse.

Word History and Origins

Origin of necked¹

1350–1400; Middle English. See neck, -ed ³

Example Sentences

The dinosaurs included carnivorous megalosaurs - ancestors of Tyrannosaurus rex - and long necked herbivores that were up to three times bigger in size than an elephant.

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“Oh, he’s necked it,” Sir Nick Faldo accurately told American TV viewers.

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It mythologized Middle America as a decent place where kids necked in parked cars and everyone was essentially good and happy, where family life was a friendly tussle, not a war.

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“It is deeply humbling to be described by someone you fancy as ‘healthy necked,’” Eleanor thinks to herself.

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Both sets of parents immediately disapproved, so the couple necked in parks in the summer, and by winter had use of a bedroom in a schoolmate’s apartment while that girl’s divorced mother worked.

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