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necking up

necking up is the present participle and gerund of neck up.

Meaning of neck up

Verb

neck up (third-person singular simple present necks up, present participle necking up, simple past and past participle necked up)

  1. to increase the size of a cartridge's chamber and calibre.

Questions about necking up

What is necking up the present participle and gerund of?
Necking up is the present participle and gerund of neck up.

Words near necking up in the dictionary

  1. neckholds
  2. neckhole
  3. neckholes
  4. necking
  5. necking down
  6. necking up
  7. neckinger
  8. neckingers
  9. neckings
  10. neckkerchief
  11. neckkerchiefs

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Adapted from Wiktionary: necking up (page history and authors); neck up (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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