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▪ I. bottle-neck, bottleneck|ˈbɒt(ə)lnɛk|
[f. bottle n.2 + neck n.1]
1. The neck of a bottle (see neck n.1 11 a).
1922Joyce Ulysses 423 A room lit by a candle stuck in a bottleneck.
2. A narrow entrance to or stretch in a road, comparable to the neck of a bottle in shape; gen. a narrow or confined space where traffic may become congested.
1896[see sense 4 below]. 1907Westm. Gaz. 21 Aug. 5/2 The bottle-neck, known as London-road, at the Elephant and Castle. 1915W. J. Locke Jaffery x. 123 Through the bottle-neck of Brentford,..we crawled as fast as we were able. 1928Britain's Industr. Future (Liberal Ind. Inquiry) iv. xxiii. 314 Any failure to maintain dock and harbour facilities..results in delays... Ports then become the ‘bottle-necks’ of ocean traffic and congestion results.
3. fig. Anything obstructing an even flow of production, etc., or impeding activity, etc.
1928Observer 15 July 10/3 It is hoped to make one side of the higher science forms of the school a bottle-neck through which boys of special intelligence..may pass. 1936Economist 14 Mar. 581/1 Frequent complaints of deliveries falling into arrears..reveal the existence of numerous ‘bottlenecks’. 1947Ann. Reg. 1946 13 Import programmes, the bottleneck of which was no longer shipping, but finance. 1968Brit. Med. Bull. XXIV. 192/2 The technology, therefore, exists; the bottle-neck..is in the education and training of those whose activities can benefit from its effective use.
4. attrib. and Comb. Also quasi-adj., = bottle-necked ppl. a.
1896Daily News 26 Dec. 3/1 The widened portions at Holloway and elsewhere are rendered useless by narrow, bottle-neck approaches to Finsbury-park. 1898Ibid. 19 Oct. 3/1 [He] called Old Jewry ‘a bottle-neck-shaped street’. 1908Daily Graphic 21 Mar. 13/3 Our desire at present is to look so feminine that bottle-neck shoulders are praised. 1938L. MacNeice Earth Compels 7 The bottle-neck harbour collects the mud.
Add:[1.] b. Mus. The neck of a bottle or similar device worn on the finger by an (esp. blues) guitarist to produce sliding effects on the strings over the fingerboard; the style of playing with a bottleneck, or a guitar so played. Cf. slide-guitar s.v. slide- c.
1965Melody Maker 10 July 12/4 Bottlenecks are not manufactured yet, but most guitarists make them themselves. 1968P. Oliver Screening Blues iii. 121 Muddy Waters's sliding, vibrating bottleneck on the strings gave a chilling, trembling excitement to the piece. 1976Rolling Stone 22 Apr. 16/3 Slide guitars used to be referred to as bottlenecks. 1986Making Music Apr. 28/3 His inability to master playing with a bottleneck.
[4.] b. In sense 1 b above, as bottleneck playing, bottleneck style.
1977Zigzag Mar. 20/1 You feel that *bottleneck playing has been there all the time. 1989Q Mar. 97/1 The latter's unorthodox style of bottleneck playing—derived from untutored attempts to mimic such legends as Robert Johnson, was ideally suited. 1978Gramophone Feb. 1490/1 Clapton produces some fittingly earthy *bottleneck sounds. 1968P. Oliver Screening Blues ii. 81 It is the blues guitarist who plays in ‘*bottleneck’ style who often plays a similar accompaniment in both religious and blues recordings.
bottleneck blues, a style of blues played on a bottleneck guitar.
1964Amer. Folk Music Occasional i. 19 Fred McDowell, a fine *bottle-neck blues player. 1985New Yorker 10 June 36/1 It was a bottleneck-blues number—raucous, intense, galloping—that moved from conflict through struggle and on to resolution.
bottleneck guitar, a guitar played with a bottleneck; a style of music so produced.
1968Blues Unlimited Sept. 24 Mr Morganfield..contributes some great *bottleneck guitar to make this the high spot of the record. 1985Music Week 2 Feb. 28/1 Hall's piano and Peabody's exuberant bottleneck guitar obviously dominate.
▪ II. bottle-neck, bottleneck, v.|ˈbɒt(ə)lnɛk|
[f. prec.]
trans. To confine or impede in a bottleneck; to pass (something) through a bottleneck.
1928Daily Express 12 June 3/4 He is ‘bottle-necked’ between Hungerford Bridge and the Hotel Cecil. 1933Planning I. viii. 8 It is easier to organise an export trade, which is necessarily bottlenecked through one channel. 1954Information Please Almanac 1955 35 Bottleneck, to delay progress; to hold up a process, especially at a critical point.
So ˈbottle-necked ppl. a., shaped like the neck of a bottle.
1932H. Simpson Boomerang vii. 140 No bottle-necked alleys to delay them. |