Meaning of thickneck | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A thuggish enforcer; a goon.
2. An onion that fails to develop a bulb.

Examples

“At 58.9K, he'd be handing over practically nine thousand dollars a year to California and to the county for the privilege of being shaken down by these thicknecks. And the shittiest thing of it was, he never had a problem with paying taxes.”

“Shady looking thicknecks accompany the businessmen and other types. These gentlemen, who require no assistance whatsoever to disembowel any potential troublemaker, are the right-hand men of the modern-day Russian bosses.”

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