Thickneck

noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    A thuggish enforcer; a goon.

    "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."

  2. 2
    An onion that fails to develop a bulb.

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"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."

Etymology

thick + neck

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