Lexic.us

Definition of Neck and neck

1. Adjective. Inconclusive as to outcome; close or just even in a race or comparison or competition. "The election was a nip and tuck affair"

2. Adverb. Even or close in a race or competition or comparison. "He won nip and tuck"

Definition of Neck and neck

1. Adjective. (idiomatic) Very close in progress, as in a race or contest. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Lexicographical Neighbors of Neck And Neck

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Literary usage of Neck and neck

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

1. The Comic History of the United States: From a Period Prior to the Discovery by John D. Sherwood (1870)
"General Lee's Neck-and-Neck Race with Sir Henry Clinton for New York ; Lee ahead 120 Minutes. — Sir Henry and a Party of Jolly Dogs alight ..."

2. Slang and Its Analogues Past and Present: A Dictionary, Historical and by John Stephen Farmer, William Ernest Henley (1902)
"After two neck and neck votes the same evening, the final numbers were 54 against ... It is NECK-AND-NECK between Nos. I and 2. ON (or IN) THE NECK OF,/>Ar. ..."

3. Lawyers' Reports Annotated by Lawyers Co-operative Publishing Company (1911)
"The race was very close, and was run in what might be, in racehorse parlance, called "neck and neck;" the Seattle boy being put forward by the Seattle club, ..."

4. Dictionary of Phrase and Fable: Giving the Derivation, Source, Or Origin of by Ebenezer Cobham Brewer (1898)
"Neck and Neck. Very near together in merit ; very close competitors. A phrase used in horse races, when two or more horses run each other very closely. ..."

5. Legends of the Northwest by Hanford Lennox Gordon (1881)
"Side by side, neck and neck, for a mile, still they strain their strong arms to the utmost, Till rounding a willowy isle, now ahead creeps the boat of ..."

6. The Slang Dictionary: Etymological, Historical, and Anecdotal by John Camden Hotten (1874)
"neck and neck. Horses run neck and neck in a race when they are so perfectly equal that one cannot be said to be before the other. ..."

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