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  • adjective Wearing a turtleneck.

Etymologies

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turtleneck +‎ -ed

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Examples

  • The house seemed so empty, even with the turtlenecked Oscar yipping and yapping at my heels.

    How to Flirt with A Naked Werewolf Molly Harper 2011

  • But my first exposure to Joyce was in a sleepy little black shoebox theatre, where a troupe of mild-mannered turtlenecked barnstormers read from Dubliners from a stage decorated with high stools, and where I, underexposed and underage and over my head, had too much to drink and fell asleep in mid-performance.

    After the Race | Miette's Bedtime Story Podcast 2010

  • The house seemed so empty, even with the turtlenecked Oscar yipping and yapping at my heels.

    How to Flirt with A Naked Werewolf Molly Harper 2011

  • The house seemed so empty, even with the turtlenecked Oscar yipping and yapping at my heels.

    How to Flirt with A Naked Werewolf Molly Harper 2011

  • The house seemed so empty, even with the turtlenecked Oscar yipping and yapping at my heels.

    How to Flirt with A Naked Werewolf Molly Harper 2011

  • The house seemed so empty, even with the turtlenecked Oscar yipping and yapping at my heels.

    How to Flirt with A Naked Werewolf Molly Harper 2011

  • Servicing her husband, according to the leathery, turtlenecked crone currently being interviewed.

    Fly Away Home Jennifer Weiner 2010

  • Servicing her husband, according to the leathery, turtlenecked crone currently being interviewed.

    Fly Away Home Jennifer Weiner 2010

  •   A crowd of black-turtlenecked women and girls mills about outside, smoking French Gauloise-brand cigarettes, “freestyling” with each other.

    The Sylvia Plath Foreclosure Sale 2010

  • "The success of The Economist — the fact that you read it, a black-turtlenecked guy at Columbia," Mr. Meacham said, before trailing off and complaining how difficult it is to draw in young readers for Newsweek.

    Newsweek Inches Closer to The Economist, But Does Editor Jon Meacham Like The Economist? 2008

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