shot in the neck

shot in the neck

obsolete slang Drunk. The man staggered through town, clearly shot in the neck. He's been shot in the neck for days after being laid off.
See also: neck, shot
Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.

shot in the neck

1. n. a drink of straight whiskey. Willy took a little shot in the neck before heading out into the cold.
2. mod. alcohol intoxicated. What’s wrong with Harry is that he’s shot in the neck every day by supper.
See also: neck, shot
McGraw-Hill's Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions
See also:
  • Gregory
  • Gregory Peck
  • neck and neck
  • stick one's neck out, to
  • take the checkered flag
  • take the chequered flag
  • by a hair
  • by a nose
  • by an eyelash
  • by a short head
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Mr Grewcock said: "Nobody seems to have seen it happen but when I got it out you could see that it had been shot in the neck.
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Mr Kincaid told how he was shot in the neck by German soldiers at the time when his unit was defending British troops during the evacuation of Dunkirk, when he was aged 21.
One was shot in the neck, the other in the leg, across the square from the England team hotel.
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