what does neck of the woods mean?
NECK OF THE WOODS as NOUN
- Meaning
- a surrounding or nearby region
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Usage Example(s)
- the plane crashed in the vicinity of Asheville
- it is a rugged locality
- he always blames someone else in the immediate neighborhood
- I will drop in on you the next time I am in this neck of the woods
Hypernyms(s) neck of the woods is a kind of… Example: animal is a hypernym of mammal, plant is a hypernym of flower
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