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the highway between your genius brain and the body that ignores it
means the part of the body connecting the head to the torso, through which everything from blood to nerves to swallowed food must pass.
from From Old English 'hnecca,' meaning the back of the neck or nape, with cousins across the Germanic family — Old High German 'hnack' and similar forms point to a shared root meaning roughly 'nape' or 'projecting part.' The everyday word has stayed remarkably steady for over a thousand years, even as it sprouted figurative limbs: 'neck of the woods,' 'risk your neck,' 'breakneck.'
- giraffe count
- same seven bones as you, just longer
- weight bearer
- holds a head heavier than a bowling ball
- vulnerable spot
- why vampires and ties both aim here
- throat singing
- two pitches from one neck at once
neck of the woods — american idiom for a neighborhood or region, used since the 1800s
bottleneck — constraint limiting output, widely used in supply chain management and software engineering
redneck — term for rural working-class americans, originated in appalachia in the early 1900s