Definitions for necking

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IPA: /ˈnɛk ɪŋ/

Necking is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 14 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 18 points.

You can make 79 anagrams from letters in necking (cegiknn).

Definitions for necking

noun

1. Informal. kissing, caressing, and other sexual activity between partners that does not involve stimulation of the genitals or sexual intercourse.
2. Architecture. a molding or group of moldings between the projecting part of a capital of a column and the shaft. gorgerin.
3. the part of the body of an animal or human being that connects the head and the trunk.
4. the part of a garment encircling, partly covering, or closest to the neck; neckline.
5. the length of the neck of a horse or other animal as a measure in racing.
6. the slender part near the top of a bottle, vase, or similar object.
7. any narrow, connecting, or projecting part suggesting the neck of an animal.
8. a narrow strip of land, as an isthmus or a cape.
9. a strait.
10. the longer and more slender part of a violin or similar stringed instrument, extending from the body to the head.
11. Building Trades, Machinery. the part on a shank of a bolt next to the head, especially when it has a special form.
12. Anatomy. a narrowed part of a bone, organ, or the like.
13. Dentistry. the slightly narrowed region of a tooth between the crown and the root.
14. Printing. beard (def 5).
15. Architecture. a cylindrical continuation of the shaft of a column above the lower astragal of the capital, as in the Roman Doric and Tuscan orders.
16. Also called volcanic neck. Geology. the solidified lava or igneous rock filling a conduit leading either to a vent of an extinct volcano or to a laccolith.

Idioms

1. be up to one's neck, Informal. to have a surfeit; be overburdened:
2. break one's neck, Informal. to make a great effort:
3. get it in the neck, Slang. to suffer punishment or loss: to be rejected or dismissed: to be sharply reprimanded or scolded.
4. neck and neck, even or very close; indeterminate as to the outcome:
5. neck of the woods, Informal. neighborhood, area, or vicinity:
6. stick one's neck out, Informal. to expose oneself to danger, disaster, failure, disgrace, etc.; take a risk:
7. win by a neck, to win by a small amount or narrow margin. Racing. to be first by a head and neck; finish closely.

verb (used with object)

1. Informal. to embrace, kiss, and caress (someone) amorously.
2. to strangle or behead.

verb (used without object)

1. Informal. (of two persons) to embrace, kiss, and caress one another amorously.

Origin of necking

First recorded in 1795-1805; neck + -ing¹

Examples for necking

He was interrupted in 'necking' bullets, for they were cast in a mold and left a little protuberance where the run left off.

Fragment of necking of a column, somewhat similar to the preceding.

Bell: That part of the capital of a column which is between the necking below and the abacus above.

So necking the two to my other two hosses I started for Wyoming, ninety miles away.

The depth of the architrave on its under side should answer to the necking at the top of the column.

In architectural usage, the deep groove which separates the necking of the column from the upper drum of the shaft beneath.

To anybody driving past it would merely suggest a necking party, or a drunk sleeping off his load before continuing home.

The reel and bead pattern running along the lower border of the necking represents the lotus stalks.

The mouldings of the shaft are carefully stopped below the necking, and above the base.

As with columns, the joints at base and necking are bedded in sheet lead.