Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

thickneck

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: thick-neck
IPA

24

Scrabble Score

9

Letters

2

Syllables

7

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

A thuggish enforcer; a goon.

noun

An onion that fails to develop a bulb.

Example Sentences

"At 58.9K, he'd be handing over practically nine thousand dollars a year to California and to the county for the privilege of being shaken down by these thicknecks. And the shittiest thing of it was, he never had a problem with paying taxes."
"Shady looking thicknecks accompany the businessmen and other types. These gentlemen, who require no assistance whatsoever to disembowel any potential troublemaker, are the right-hand men of the modern-day Russian bosses."

Etymology

thick + neck

Inflected Forms

thicknecks (plural)

Questions

What does thickneck mean?: A thuggish enforcer; a goon.
Where does thickneck come from?: thick + neck

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