red-necked adjective. ['rɛdnɛkt] L19.
[from RED adjective + NECKED.]
1. Chiefly Zoology. Having a red neck. L19.
red-necked avocet an Australian avocet, Recurvirostra novaehollandiae. red-necked grebe a holarctic grebe, Podiceps grisegena. red-necked nightjar an Iberian and N. African nightjar, Caprimulgus ruficollis. red-necked phalarope a northern holarctic phalarope, Phalaropus lobatus, which has a chestnut patch on the neck when in breeding plumage. red-necked wallaby an Australian wallaby, Macropus rufogriseus, naturalized in parts of Britain.

2. Holding redneck views; characteristic of a redneck; reactionary, conservative. Orig. US. M20.

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