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thicknecks

thicknecks is the plural of thickneck.

Meaning of thickneck

Noun

thickneck (plural thicknecks)

  1. A thuggish enforcer; a goon.
    • At 58.9K, he'd be handing over practically nine thousand dollars a year to California and to the county for the privilege of being shaken down by these thicknecks. And the shittiest thing of it was, he never had a problem with paying taxes.1996, Michael Drinkard, Disobedience, page 64
  2. An onion that fails to develop a bulb.

Questions about thicknecks

What is thicknecks the plural of?
Thicknecks is the plural of thickneck.

Words near thicknecks in the dictionary

  1. thicklier
  2. thickliest
  3. thicklips
  4. thickly
  5. thickneck
  6. thicknecks
  7. thickness
  8. thickness planer
  9. thickness planers
  10. thicknessed
  11. thicknesser

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