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necked

[ nekt ]

adjective

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

    a square-necked blouse.



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Word History and Origins

Origin of necked1

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

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

From BBC

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.

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

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.

Just pushed it a bit, and necked it a bit.

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