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open-necked
adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
V-necked/open-necked etc
▪ a navy V-necked sweater
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
shirt
▪ He was wearing shorts and an open-necked shirt, and his limbs were firm with muscle and suntanned.
▪ Then Miguel himself came round the corner of the villa, dressed in a white open-necked shirt and dark fitted trousers.
▪ Another table was hidden by a group of young men in open-necked shirts and brown pullovers.
▪ Jenkins entered, followed by two Arabs in jeans and open-necked shirts.
▪ They were dressed simply in hose and open-necked shirts.
▪ He came in an open-necked shirt and walked to the makeshift podium without a very obvious security presence.
▪ I tried to sneak out with an open-necked shirt, but she called me back.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Another table was hidden by a group of young men in open-necked shirts and brown pullovers.
▪ As she was talking a man in olive-drab slacks and an open-necked flannel shirt joined her.
▪ He was wearing shorts and an open-necked shirt, and his limbs were firm with muscle and suntanned.
▪ He wore an open-necked checked shirt, and jeans, and occasionally reached for the pint of lager at his side.
▪ Jenkins entered, followed by two Arabs in jeans and open-necked shirts.
▪ Often worn with pale, open-necked sports shirts and dodgy cravats.
▪ The swine looked even more attractive than ever in a black open-necked polo shirt and black jeans.
▪ Then Miguel himself came round the corner of the villa, dressed in a white open-necked shirt and dark fitted trousers.

Usage examples of "open-necked".

Their gear, Gandhi thought, was not that much different from what British soldiers wore: ankle boots, shorts, and open-necked tunics.

In the sitting-room Bananas was looking mildly piratical in his open-necked shirt and his sneakers and his four days' growth of harsh black beard, but he himself would never have made anyone walk the plank.

The sign had even been repainted in scarlet, and as soon as Craig entered, he recognized the burly red-faced auctioneer in khaki shorts and short-sleeved, open-necked shirt.

Field met us at the door, dressed now in grey flannels and an open-necked bush shirt.

He was wearing a sports jacket and chinos with an open-necked shirt, like a stockbroker on casual Friday.

All the councillors are wearing suits and ties, Big Jack is in civilian clothes, a tweed sports coat and his South Melbourne club tie, but Tommy has on a white short-sleeved open-necked shirt and brown daks, though his shoes are polished.

Nine were wearing lab coats-no, ten, counting the one in the corner-and two were in jeans and open-necked shirts.

A skinny middle-aged man in a kelly green suit, open-necked lime green shirt, and stacked-heel oxblood patent oxfords sat in the middle of it, tuning an electric guitar.