Collar

Quick meaning: Collar is a noun meaning Clothes that encircle the neck.

Meaning

Clothes that encircle the neck.

More Meanings

1. A piece of meat from the neck of an animal.
2. (technology) Any encircling device or structure.
3. (in compounds) Of or pertaining to a certain category of professions as symbolized by typical clothing.
4. (botany) The neck or line of junction between the root of a plant and its stem
5. A ringlike part of a mollusk in connection with the esophagus.
6. (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.
7. (slang) An arrest.

Example Sentences

a collar of brawn

Collar and leash aggressive dogs.

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

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

Word Forms

• collars
• collaring
• collared

Synonyms for collar

Depending on context, synonyms include collum, apprehension, apprehend, arrest, pinch, catch.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include choker, neckband, pinch, catch, pick up, apprehension.

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