the part of a shirt, coat, dress, blouse, etc., that encompasses the neckline of the garment and is sewn permanently to it, often so as to fold or roll over.
2.
a similar but separate, detachable article of clothing worn around the neck or at the neckline of a garment. Compare clerical collar.
3.
anything worn or placed around the neck.
4.
a leather or metal band or a chain, fastened around the neck of an animal, used especially as a means of restraint or identification.
5.
the part of the harness that fits across the withers and over the shoulders of a draft animal, designed to distribute the pressure of the load drawn.
Metalworking. (of a piece being rolled) to wrap itself around a roller.
Idiom
23.
hot under the collar, Informal. angry; excited; upset.
Origin: 1250–1300; Middle English coler < Anglo-French; Old French colier < Latin collāre neckband, collar, equivalent to coll(um) neck + -āre, neuter (as noun) of -āris-ar1; spelling later conformed to Latin (compare -ar2)
c.1300, from O.Fr. coler, from L. collare "necklace, band or chain for the neck," from collum "the neck," from PIE *kwol-o- "neck" (cf. O.N., M.Du. hals "neck"), lit. "that on which the head turns," from base *kwel- "move round, turn about" (see cycle). Verb meaning "to capture"
tv. to arrest someone. (See also collared.) : The cops collared her as she was leaving the hotel.
n. an arrest. : It was a tough collar, with all the screaming and yelling.
Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions by Richard A. Spears.Fourth Edition. Copyright 2007. Published by McGraw Hill.
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