Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Having the neck rough: as, the rough-necked jacare, Jacare hirti-collis, of South America.
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Examples
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Who could resist the opportunity to visit "legendary 'Cathay,' " not to mention visit it as the guest of Prime Minister Chou En-lai, who on a mission to Geneva earlier that year had snowed many in the West, who saw "not a rough-necked 'agrarian reformer' dressed in padded cotton but an urbane, cultured, and articulate man in a tailored suit and silk tie"?
A quick peek behind China's wall Post 2011
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Who could resist the opportunity to visit "legendary 'Cathay,' " not to mention visit it as the guest of Prime Minister Chou En-lai, who on a mission to Geneva earlier that year had snowed many in the West, who saw "not a rough-necked 'agrarian reformer' dressed in padded cotton but an urbane, cultured, and articulate man in a tailored suit and silk tie"?
A quick peek behind China's wall Post 2011
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And in and out at the big gate went the trappers -- sturdy, rough-necked, hirsute fellows in buckskins, with
The River and I John G. Neihardt 1927
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At the long lunch-counter rough-necked fellows perched on tripod stools were guzzling food.
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A few minutes later behold him seated at a card-table with three rough-necked, hard-bitten-looking men.
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And in the city's Grand Khaan Irish Pub the vanguard of the coming investment boom can be found quaffing pints and discussing deals - suited diplomats and investment bankers rubbing shoulders with rough-necked mining engineers and their suspiciously pretty local "girlfriends".
Latest Articles The Telegraph 2010
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"Cut out the rough-necked rage and talk, and don't you think or say:
With the Colors Songs of the American Service Everard Jack Appleton 1901
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