Neck, to swallow. Neck-oil, drink of any kind.
Neck and crop, entirely, completely; “he chuck’d him NECK AND CROP out of window.”
Neck and neck. Horses run NECK AND NECK in a race when they are so perfectly equal that one cannot be said to be before the other.
Neck or nothing, desperate. Originally a steeplechase phrase.
Neck beef, a synonym for coarseness. “As coarse as neck ends of beef.”
Neckinger, a cravat. See [MUCKENGER].
Ned, a guinea. Half-ned, half-a-guinea.
Neddy, a considerable quantity, as “a NEDDY of fruit,” “a NEDDY of fish,” &c.—Irish slang.
Neddy, a donkey. On Sunday, when a costermonger, if at all well to do, takes his family out for an airing in his “shallow,” the donkey is called “Eddard.”
Neddy, a life preserver. Possibly contraction of Kennedy, the name of the first man, it is said in St. Giles’s, who had his head broken by a poker.