Citations:neckful

English citations of neckful

Uncertain noun senses

• 1974, United States. Congress. House. Committee on Appropriations. Subcommittee on the Treasury, Postal Service, and General Government Appropriations, Treasury, Postal Service, and General Government Appropriations for Fiscal Year 1975:

  I know part of this problem sprang up by the fact that, we became so dependent on a foreign source that we weren't able to react when the foreign source stopped, just like we were on some of this so-called cheap foreign oil that our yankee friends finally got a neckful all of a sudden.

• 2009, Charlie Brooker, The Hell of it All, page 163:

  Everywhere you look, we're down on our knees, gleefully lapping up neckful after neckful of steaming, cloddish bullshit in all its forms.

Adjective

• 1964, March of Mysore - Volume 1, page 27:

  They wear neckful or rather neck-heavy necklaces of multi-coloured beads.