[with obj.](informal, chiefly Brit.)handle roughly; beat up (非正式,主英)粗暴对待;痛打 ■(Rugby)grasp (an opponent) by placing an arm around the neck (英橄)搂住(对手)脖子 ■(archaic or US)kill by strangling or hanging (古或美)扼死;绞死 ■(US)kill; murder (美)杀死;谋杀
noun
an unattractively thin person or animal 骨瘦如柴的人(或动物)
(archaic, informal)a person's neck (古,非正式)人的脖子
语源
mid 16th cent. (as a noun): perhaps an alteration of Scots and northern English crag 'neck'. The verb (mid 18th cent.) developed the sense 'handle roughly' from the early use 'hang, strangle'