NECKED

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does necked mean? 

• NECKED (adjective)
  The adjective NECKED has 1 sense:

1. having a neck or having a neck especially as specified (often used in combination)

  Familiarity information: NECKED used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• NECKED (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Having a neck or having a neck especially as specified (often used in combination)

Similar:

decollete; low-cut; low-necked ((of a garment) having a low-cut neckline)

high-necked ((of a garment) having a high neckline)

necklike (resembling a neck)

throated (having a throat as specified)

Antonym:

neckless (lacking or apparently lacking a neck)

 Context examples 

Experts believe that the thigh bone belonged to a sauropod — one of a group of long-necked, plant-eating dinosaurs that include some of the largest animals to have ever walked the Earth.

(140 Million-Year-Old Dinosaur’s Huge Bone Found in Southwest France, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

It had such a prescriptive, stiff-necked, long-established, solemn, elderly air.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

The dinosaur, the third found in southwestern Tanzania by the scientists, is a large, long-necked titanosaur, a type of sauropod.

(New dinosaur with heart-shaped tail offers clues to evolution of Africa's ecosystems, National Science Foundation)

“All very well, Roger Harcomb,” cried a burly, bull-necked young man, whose square shoulders and massive limbs told of exceptional personal strength.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Long-necked sauropod dinosaurs include the largest animals ever to walk on land, but they hatched from eggs no bigger than a soccer ball.

(Newly discovered baby Titanosaur sheds light on dinosaurs' early lives, NSF)

The new species is a member of the gigantic, long-necked sauropods.

(Paleontologists discover new species of sauropod dinosaur in Tanzania, National Science Foundation)

It isn't low-necked, and it doesn't sweep enough, but it will have to do.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

But “no, he was a short-necked, apoplectic sort of fellow, and, plied well with good things, would soon pop off.”

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

I, in my stiff- necked rebellion, almost cursed the dispensation: instead of bending to the decree, I defied it.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

He was a squat, bull-necked man, clad in the iron helmet, mail tunic, and woollen gambesson of his class.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)