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  • noun Plural form of pencil-neck.

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Examples

  • We need to keep our hands squeezed firmly around their pencil-necks, and not let them up for a second's worth of air.

    Cold Fury Mike 2010

  • We need to keep our hands squeezed firmly around their pencil-necks, and not let them up for a second's worth of air.

    Cold Fury Mike 2010

  • While the pen-toting pencil-necks packing the hotel conference room would've been satisfied just to get a few minutes with him in his sweats, Crosby showed up wearing a perfectly pressed suit and hair to match.

    Ottawa Sun 2010

  • While the pen-toting pencil-necks packing the hotel conference room would've been satisfied just to get a few minutes with him in his sweats, Crosby showed up wearing a perfectly pressed suit and hair to match.

    London Free Press 2010

  • "only being designed to kill people", and even I have to admit that if the DC-based pencil-necks were concerned about the safety of their agents in the wild, there are better sidearms for aggressive ursidae.

    walls of the city 2009

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