Collar

/ˈkɒl.ə/ · noun

Meaning

Clothes that encircle the neck..

Definitions by Sense

1. Clothes that encircle the neck.
2. A piece of meat from the neck of an animal.
3. (technology) Any encircling device or structure.
4. (in compounds) Of or pertaining to a certain category of professions as symbolized by typical clothing.
5. (botany) The neck or line of junction between the root of a plant and its stem
6. A ringlike part of a mollusk in connection with the esophagus.
7. (nautical) An eye formed in the bight or bend of a shroud or stay to go over the masthead; also, a rope to which certain parts of rigging, as dead-eyes, are secured.
8. (slang) An arrest.

Example Sentences

a collar of brawn

A nylon collar kept the bolt from damaging the surface underneath.

In this case, slide the collar of the flapper over the overflow tube until it seats against the bottom of the flush valve.

The collar was made less than twenty-four hours after the hunky bastards butchered the old man.

Collar and leash aggressive dogs.

(Follow me, don't follow me.) I've got my spine, I've got my orange crush. (Collar me, don't collar me.) I've got my spine, I've got my orange crush.

"Ho, aboard the Salt Junk Sarah, Rollin" home across the line, The Bo'sun collared the Captain's hat And threw it in the brine.

Britain’s police are especially zealous. Officers spend thousands of hours sifting through potentially offensive posts and arrest 30 people a day. Among those collared were a man who ranted about immigration on Facebook and a couple who criticised their daughter’s primary school.

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Word Forms

• collars
• collaring
• collared

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