necking
English
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Verb
[edit]necking
- present participle and gerund of neck
Noun
[edit]necking (countable and uncountable, plural neckings)
- A behavior among male giraffes where they hold combat for social dominance using their necks as weapons.
- 2005, Barbara Keevil Parker, Giraffes, page 26:
- Necking helps young male giraffes test which one has a stronger neck.
- (architecture) A neckmould.
- (slang) Chugging beer.
- Coordinate term: shotgunning
- For Lent, he gave up necking and cigarettes.
- (slang) Making out; kissing profusely, especially on the neck.
- 1965, Attila Zohar, Kings Cross Black Magic, Sydney: Horwitz Publications, page 74:
- However one of the girls in answer to our questions explained that at the end of the ceremony the men and women participants are quite free to pair off for what she called “necking”.