Meaning

4 senses
  1. (slang, transitive)To hang by the neck; strangle; kill, eliminate.

    Go neck yourself.

    hängen, erhängen, würgen

  2. (US, informal, intransitive)To intently kiss or cuddle; to canoodle.

    Alan and Betty were necking in the back of a car when Betty's dad caught them.

    knutschen, sich küssen, sich lieben

  3. (slang, transitive)To drink or swallow rapidly.

    schlucken, saufen, stürzen

  4. (intransitive)To decrease in diameter.

More definitions
  • kiss, embrace, or fondle with sexual passion

Examples

580 sentences
  1. I have a pain in my neck.

    У мене болить шия. — deniko

    ruУ меня шея болит. — marafon

  2. There's something on your neck.

    У тебе щось на шиї. — deniko

    ruНа твоей шее что-то есть. — Lenin_1917

    deSie haben da etwas am Hals. — Pfirsichbaeumchen

  3. My neck hurts a little.

    У мене трохи болить шия. — deniko

    ruМоя шея слегка болит. — Isgandar

    deMein Nacken tut ein bisschen weh. — pullnosemans

  4. Tom has a long neck.

    У Тома довга шия. — deniko

    ruУ Тома длинная шея. — marafon

    deTom hat einen langen Hals. — wolfgangth

  5. Tom kissed Mary on the neck.

    Том поцілував Мері у шию. — deniko

    ruТом поцеловал Мэри в шею. — marafon

Translations

4 languages
Deutsch
By meaning 3
hang by the neck; strangle; kill:
make love:
drink rapidly:

Origin

From Middle English nekke, nakke, from Old English hnecca, *hnæcca (“neck, nape”), from Pr

From Middle English nekke, nakke, from Old English hnecca, *hnæcca (“neck, nape”), from Proto-West Germanic *hnakkō, from Proto-Germanic *hnakkô (“nape, neck”), from Proto-Indo-European *knog-, *kneg- (“back of the head, nape, neck”).

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Forms

necks, necking, necked, necked
Base formneck · to neck
3rd person singularnecks
Present participlenecking
Past simplenecked
Past participlenecked

regular · Lesson

Present simpleLesson

I, you, we, theyneck
he, she, itnecks

Past simpleLesson

all personsnecked

Present perfectLesson

I, you, we, theyhave necked
he, she, ithas necked

Future simple (will)Lesson

all personswill neck

Phrasal verbs

2 phrasal verbs

Synonyms

19 synonyms

Word family

2 related words

Collocations

3 patterns
  • in the neck
  • broke his neck
  • neck of the

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
neck — meaning, examples, forms, synonyms | Krumeto