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neck

in. to cuddle and kiss. (Always in reference to lovers or boy-girl relationships.) There are some teenagers in the back room, necking.

See:

• a millstone around neck
• a pain in the ass
• albatross around (one's) neck
• albatross around neck
• albatross around one's neck
• be a pain in the neck
• be dead from the neck up
• be up to neck in
• brass neck
• break neck
• break one's back
• break one's neck
• breathe down neck
• breathe down someone's neck
• by the nape of the neck
• by the scruff of (one's)/its/the neck
• catch it in the neck
• crick in neck
• dead from the neck up
• get it in the neck
• hang by the neck
• have (one's) foot on (someone's) neck
• have a Chinaman at (one's) neck
• I'll wring neck!
• in some neck of the woods
• millstone about neck
• millstone around (one's) neck
• millstone around one's neck
• neck
• neck and crop
• neck and neck
• neck of the woods
• neck with
• pain in the neck
• pain-in-the-neck
• pencil neck
• put (one's) neck on the block
• put head on the block
• put neck on the line
• risk life and limb
• risk neck
• save (one's) own neck
• save neck
• save one's bacon
• save skin
• shot in the neck
• stick neck out
• stick one's neck out
• take it in the neck
• talk through the back of (one's) neck
• turtle-neck
• Up to (one's) neck in alligators
• up to neck
• up to neck in
• up to one’s neck
• up to one's ears
• yoke around neck