necking

The word “necking” has 2 syllables: neck-ing

It's pronounced as /ˈnɛkɪŋ/


What is synonym and antonym for necking?

In the thesaurus, “necking” has 37 synonyms.

Here are synonyms for necking along with examples of usage in sentences.


Synonyms for necking

Meanings of necking

  • verb
    1. To hang by the neck; strangle; kill, eliminate.
    2. To make love; to intently kiss or cuddle; to canoodle.
    3. To drink rapidly.
    4. To decrease in diameter.
  • noun
    1. A behavior among male giraffes where they hold combat for social dominance using their necks as weapons.
    2. A neckmould.
    3. Chugging beer.
    4. Making out; kissing profusely, especially on the neck.

Example Sentences

  • The teenagers were caught necking behind the school gymnasium.
  • The giraffes were observed necking affectionately in the wild.
  • We witnessed two swans necking gracefully on the lake.
  • The romantic couple enjoyed a quiet moment of necking under the stars.
  • The behavior of necking is common among certain species of birds during courtship rituals.

On this page you'll find 37 synonyms or another words to necking, such as: babying, billing, bouncing, canoodling, caressing, coddling, cradling.

Make sure to choose synonyms and antonyms that are appropriate for the context of the sentence.

Related Words

kissing

  • French-kissing
  • billing
  • bouncing
  • brushing
  • bumping
  • bussing
  • canoodling
  • caressing
  • caroming
  • contacting
  • cuddling
  • embracing
  • fondling
  • glancing
  • grazing
  • hugging
  • lipping
  • lovemaking
  • loving
  • making out
  • missing
  • necking
  • nestling
  • nudging
  • osculating
  • parking
  • patting
  • petting
  • rebounding
  • ricocheting
  • ricochetting
  • scraping
  • shaving
  • sideswiping
  • skimming
  • skipping
  • skirting
  • smacking
  • smooching
  • snuggling
  • spooning
  • striking
  • stroking
  • sucking face
  • sweeping
  • swiping
  • touching

making out

  • absorbing
  • acting
  • action
  • affecting
  • affording
  • appreciating
  • apprehending
  • ascertaining
  • assimilating
  • assuming
  • beholding
  • bluffing
  • bussing
  • camouflaging
  • canoodling
  • caress
  • caressing
  • carrying on
  • catching
  • cognizing
  • compassing
  • comprehending
  • concealing
  • conceiving
  • concluding
  • conjecturing
  • construing
  • contemplating
  • contriving
  • coping
  • counterfeiting
  • cuddling
  • deciding
  • deciphering
  • decoding
  • deducing
  • deriving
  • digesting
  • digging
  • discerning
  • disguising
  • dissembling
  • dissimulating
  • doing
  • drawing a conclusion
  • eking out
  • embracing
  • extrapolating
  • faking
  • faring
  • fathoming
  • feigning
  • feinting
  • fending for oneself
  • finding out
  • fondling
  • gathering
  • getting
  • getting along
  • getting by
  • getting on
  • grasping
  • grokking
  • guessing
  • heavy petting
  • impersonating
  • inferring
  • interpreting
  • intuiting
  • judging
  • kissing
  • knowing
  • lasting
  • letting on
  • lovemaking
  • making
  • making a pretense
  • making a show
  • making believe
  • making do
  • making ends meet
  • making love
  • making shift
  • managing
  • masking
  • masquerading
  • necking
  • oral sex
  • parking
  • penetrating
  • perceiving
  • petting
  • philosophizing
  • picking up on
  • piercing
  • playacting
  • playing
  • posing
  • pretending
  • professing
  • putting on
  • putting on an act
  • putting up a front
  • rationalizing
  • reading
  • realizing
  • reasoning
  • recognizing
  • registering
  • savvying
  • scrounging
  • seeing
  • seizing
  • sensing
  • sex
  • sexual activity
  • shamming
  • shifting
  • simulating
  • smooching
  • speculating
  • spooning
  • squeezing
  • sucking face
  • supposing
  • surmising
  • surviving
  • swinging
  • taking in
  • thinking
  • twigging
  • understanding
  • wresting
  • wringing

parking

  • anchoring
  • bivouacking
  • burrowing
  • bussing
  • camping
  • canoodling
  • caressing
  • cuddling
  • curling up
  • deploying
  • digging in
  • embracing
  • emplacing
  • ensconcing
  • fixing
  • fondling
  • harboring
  • housing
  • installing
  • locating
  • lodging
  • lovemaking
  • making love
  • making out
  • necking
  • nestling
  • perching
  • petting
  • planting
  • positioning
  • roosting
  • setting
  • settling
  • situating
  • smooching
  • spooning
  • stationing
  • sucking face

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