Definition of Neck-deep

1. Adjective. Deeply involved. "Up to their necks in debt"


Lexicographical Neighbors of Neck-deep

necessitations
necessitied
necessities
necessitous
necessitously
necessitousness
necessitude
necessitudes
necessity
necessity is the mother of innovation
necessity is the mother of invention
necitumumab
neck-brace
neck-braces
neck-deep (current term)
neck-gable
neck-gables
neck-shaft angle
neck and crop
neck and neck
neck bone
neck brace
neck braces
neck dissection
neck down
neck eel
neck exercise
neck hair
neck injuries

Literary usage of Neck-deep

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The American Sportsman by Elisha Jarrett Lewis (1906)
"... velvety and inflated, running high above the base of the bill; head, and about two inches of the neck, deep glossy reddish-chestnut; rest of the neck ..."

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