(anatomy) The part of the body connecting the head and the trunk found in humans and some animals.

The corresponding part in some other anatomical contexts.

The part of a shirt, dress etc., which fits a person's neck.

The tapered part of a bottle toward the opening.

(botany) The slender tubelike extension atop an archegonium, through which the sperm swim to reach the egg.

(music) The extension of any stringed instrument on which a fingerboard is mounted

A long narrow tract of land projecting from the main body, or a narrow tract connecting two larger tracts.

(engineering) A reduction in size near the end of an object, formed by a groove around it.

The constriction between the root and crown of a tooth.

(architecture) The gorgerin of a capital.

(geology) A volcanic plug, solidified lava filling the vent of an extinct volcano.

(firearms) The small part of a gun between the chase and the swell of the muzzle.

(figurative) A person's life.

(informal, MLE, slang) A falsehood; a lie.

(slang) Fellatio

(now historical) A bundle of wheat used in certain English harvest ceremonies.

(folklore) A shapeshifting water spirit in Germanic mythology and folklore; a nix.

(transitive, slang) To hang by the neck; strangle; kill, eliminate.

(intransitive, informal, chiefly US) To make love; to intently kiss or cuddle; to canoodle.

(transitive, slang) To drink or swallow rapidly.

(intransitive) To decrease in diameter.