neck

Related to neck: nick, Stiff neck, NECN

neck

1. noun, informal Brazen, impudent, or insolent boldness; nerve. Primarily heard in UK. I can't believe he had the neck to demand a raise, right there in the middle of the meeting! You've got some neck, talking to me like that! The neck of you—how dare you imply something so horrid!
2. verb, informal To kiss and caress (someone) in an amorous manner. It's a popular spot for high school kids to park their cars and neck in the back seat. I caught him necking Julie in the supply closet yesterday.
3. verb, informal To drink (something, especially alcohol) very quickly. Primarily heard in UK. You're going to make yourself sick if you keep necking your pints like that. I had to neck my coffee and race out the door in order to catch my bus.
Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.

neck

in. to cuddle and kiss. (Always in reference to lovers or boy-girl relationships.) There are some teenagers in the back room, necking.
McGraw-Hill's Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions
See:
  • (one's)/the hair is standing up on the back on (one's) neck
  • a crick in (one's) neck
  • a millstone about (one's) neck
  • a millstone around (one's) neck
  • a millstone around your neck
  • a millstone around/round somebody's neck
  • a millstone round (one's) neck
  • a millstone round your neck
  • a pain in the neck
  • albatross (a)round (one's) neck
  • albatross around one's neck
  • albatross around one's neck, an
  • albatross round someone's neck
  • an albatross around your neck
  • be a pain in the neck
  • be breathing down (one's) neck
  • be breathing down someone's neck
  • be dead from the neck up
  • be up to (one's) neck in (something)
  • be up to your neck in something
  • brass neck
  • brass neck/nerve
  • break (one's) neck
  • break neck
  • break one's back
  • break one's neck
  • break one's neck, to
  • break your neck
  • break your neck to do something
  • breakneck
  • breathe down (one's) neck
  • breathe down neck
  • breathe down somebody's neck
  • breathe down someone's neck
  • by a neck
  • by the nape of (one's)/its/the neck
  • by the nape of the neck
  • by the scruff of (one's)/its/the neck
  • by the scruff of somebody's/the neck
  • catch it in the neck
  • crick in neck
  • dead from the neck up
  • deadneck
  • get it in the neck
  • hang (someone or oneself) by the neck
  • hang by the neck
  • have (one's) foot on (someone's) neck
  • have some neck
  • have the (brass) neck to (do something)
  • have the brass (neck) to (do something)
  • have the neck to do something
  • in (one's) neck of the woods
  • in some neck of the woods
  • in this/that neck of the woods
  • in up to (one's) neck
  • in your, this, etc. neck of the woods
  • kiss mi neck back
  • lay (one's) head on the block
  • lay (one's) neck on the block
  • make (one's)/the hair stand up on the back of (one's) neck
  • millstone (around one's neck), to bear/carry a
  • millstone about neck
  • millstone around one's neck
  • Miss/Mrs. Van Neck
  • neck
  • neck and crop
  • neck and neck
  • neck down
  • neck of the woods
  • neck of the woods, this
  • neck oil
  • neck or nothing
  • neck up
  • neck with
  • neck with (one)
  • pain in the neck
  • pain in the neck, a
  • pain-in-the-neck
  • pencil neck
  • put (one's) head on the block
  • put (one's) neck on the block
  • put (one's) neck on the line
  • put neck on the line
  • put your head on the block
  • put your neck on the line
  • put/lay your head/neck on the block
  • redneck
  • risk (one's) neck
  • risk life and limb
  • risk neck
  • risk your neck
  • roughneck
  • save (one's) hide
  • save (one's) neck
  • save (one's) own hide
  • save (one's) own neck
  • save one's bacon
  • save skin
  • save somebody's/your neck/skin/hide
  • save someone's neck
  • shot in the neck
  • some neck
  • stick (one's) neck out
  • stick neck out
  • stick one's neck out
  • stick one's neck out, to
  • stick your neck out
  • take it in the neck
  • talk through the back of (one's) neck
  • turtleneck
  • turtle-neck
  • up to (one's) neck in (something)
  • up to (one's) neck in alligators
  • up to neck
  • up to one’s neck
  • up to one's ears
  • up to your neck
  • up to your neck in
  • win (something) by a neck
  • win by a neck
  • wring (one's) neck
  • wring somebody's neck
  • wring someone's neck
  • yoke around (one's) neck
  • yoke around neck
  • your neck of the woods
References in classic literature
His neck was in pain and lifting his hand to it found it horribly swollen.
As he is about to clasp her he feels a stunning blow upon the back of the neck; a blinding white light blazes all about him with a sound like the shock of a cannon -- then all is darkness and silence!
An Occurrence At Owl Creek Bridge
The trailing rope in their hands, to his neck, he had forgotten.
At the height of his leap the rope tightened taut on his neck, causing him to describe a somersault and fall heavily to the floor on his side.
Michael Brother of Jerry
When he had come alongside I grasped the scruff of his neck, and after a considerable struggle, in which I several times came near to over-turning the canoe, I managed to drag him aboard, where he shook himself vigorously and squatted down before me.
Pellucidar
The wood was seasoned and dry, and it was tied so closely to his neck that he could scarcely get his teeth to it.
White Fang
Daylight fetched up against his steed's neck with clasped arms, and at the same instant, with fore feet clear of the ground, Bob whirled around.
Burning Daylight
Sing Song Silly beat him to it." He bent, rolled the man over, and discovered the lacerated back of the neck. "That's where he landed on him first, and he must have had his finger on the trigger, drawing down on you and me, most likely me first, when Sing Song Silly broke up his calculations."
Jerry of the Islands
Down they went together, but so well had Tarzan's plan worked out that before ever they touched the ground he had gained the same hold upon Akut that had broken Molak's neck.
The Beasts of Tarzan
She stooped to kiss the child, and fondly clasped her arm round his neck.
The Tenant of Wildfell Hall
All that was noticeable was the little wilful tendrils of her curly hair that would always break free about her neck and temples.
Anna Karenina
The executioner knotted the cord firmly round the unfortunate man's neck and was just about to swing him into the air, when the Sultan's purveyor dashed through the crowd, and cried, panting, to the hangman,
Arabian Nights
The hunter did as Mohegan advised, and prepared to strike a blow with the barbed weapon into the neck of the buck.
Pioneers
Besides the soreness in my mouth, and the pain in my neck, it always made my windpipe feel bad, and if I had stopped there long I know it would have spoiled my breathing; but I grew more and more restless and irritable, I could not help it; and I began to snap and kick when any one came to harness me; for this the groom beat me, and one day, as they had just buckled us into the carriage, and were straining my head up with that rein, I began to plunge and kick with all my might.
Black Beauty
She recognized, almost with a shock, that one of them was hers, Dolly, the companion of her girlhood and womanhood, on whose neck she had sobbed her sorrows and sung her joys.
Moon Face and Other Stories