crewneck
crewneck is the alternative form of crew neck.
Meaning of crew neck
Noun
crew neck (plural crew necks)
- A round neckline with a ribbed texture.
- For a writer celebrated for his control of his characters’ inner lives, for a husband and father notoriously prickly about his expression of the suburban proprieties — the crewneck Shetland sweater and khakis, the plummy faux-Brahmin accent, the adoring Labrador at his feet, the woodpile neatly...2009 March 15, Geoffrey Wolff, “Suburban Suffering”, in New York Times
- A shirt, sweater, or similar garment with such a neckline.
Forms of crewneck
| plural | crewnecks |
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Origin of crewneck
From crew + neck.
Words formed from crewneck
Questions about crewneck
- What is crewneck the alternative form of?
- Crewneck is the alternative form of crew neck.
Words near crewneck in the dictionary
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Adapted from Wiktionary: crewneck (page history and authors); crew neck (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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