The narrow portion that forms the pouring spout of a bottle; the neck of a bottle. / (figuratively) In traffic, any narrowing of the road, especially resulting in a delay.

(transitive) To slow by causing a bottleneck. / (intransitive) To form a bottleneck.

plural of bottleneck

Third-person singular simple present indicative form of bottleneck

simple past tense and past participle of bottleneck

present participle of bottleneck

(music) A technique of playing guitar by sliding a metal tube, or (originally) a glass bottleneck, along the guitar strings to alter the pitch.

plural of bottleneck guitar

A sudden (normally temporary) decrease in a population typically due to a stressful situation