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  • noun Any bone in the neck; often of poultry, in cooking.

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Examples

  • According to Calhoun, Questlove ordered up some of that finger-lickin 'good chicken, a little neckbone mixed with some black eyed peas (perhaps Fergie should be the one pissed off?) and then, incredulous, stepped off the line to post a picture of the controversial menu to his 1.2 million Twitter followers ... causing a stir both in cyberspace and in NBC-commissaryspace.

    Andy Ostroy: Black NBC Cook's Menu is Racist, Implies Black Drummer Questlove. And I Thought White People Were Crazy 2010

  • According to Calhoun, Questlove ordered up some of that finger-lickin 'good chicken, a little neckbone mixed with some black eyed peas (perhaps Fergie should be the one pissed off?) and then, incredulous, stepped off the line to post a picture of the controversial menu to his 1.2 million Twitter followers ... causing a stir both in cyberspace and in NBC-commissaryspace.

    Black NBC Cook's Menu is Racist, Implies Black Drummer Questlove. And I Thought White People Were Crazy 2010

  • Shrimp bisque or neckbone soup (popular here in the south but I know many Americans would never touch it so that one might be a risk.)

    What to bring? 2005

  • Last week the specials were fairly strange, neckbone one day, fried catfish another day, and etouffee (sp?).

    marilynnv Diary Entry marilynnv 2006

  • If two or more of us agree on a time, it's on like a neckbone.

    wilberteets Diary Entry wilberteets 2006

  • “Dragged by my feet through the street neckbone, headbone”

    Truck Route 1 & 9 2005

  • A chunk of lard tied in paper dark with grease, a brown piece of smoke-cured hog neckbone, some parched corn, about a cup of soup beans twisted in a square of paper, a leek and a turnip and three carrots, a bar of lye soap.

    Cold Mountain Frazier, Charles, 1950- Cold Mountain 2003

  • This 8-year-old girl was dragged out into these woods and her throat slit ear to ear, almost to her neckbone, by, police say, it was her stepfather.

    CNN Transcript Dec 23, 2002 2002

  • First out of the earth was a skull, followed by a shoulder bone and a neckbone.

    ANC Daily News Briefing 1997

  • A chunk of lard tied in paper dark with grease, a brown piece of smoke-cured hog neckbone, some parched corn, about a cup of soup beans twisted in a square of paper, a leek and a turnip and three carrots, a bar of lye soap.

    Cold Mountain Frazier, Charles, 1950- Cold Mountain 1997

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