collar

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   the act of apprehending (especially apprehending a criminal)

   the policeman on the beat got credit for the collar

2. 2
   noun

   a figurative restraint

   asked for a collar on program trading in the stock market

3. 3
   noun

   anything worn or placed about the neck

   the thief was forced to wear a heavy wooden collar

4. 4
   verb

   to furnish with a collar

   Collar the dog and we can go for a walk.

5. 5
   noun

   Clothes that encircle the neck.

   It was April 22, 1831, and a young man was walking down Whitehall in the direction of Parliament Street. He wore shepherd's plaid trousers and the swallow-tail coat of the day, with a figured muslin cravat wound about his wide-spread collar.

6. 6
   noun

   A piece of meat from the neck of an animal.

   a collar of brawn

7. 7
   noun

   Any encircling device or structure.

   A nylon collar kept the bolt from damaging the surface underneath.

8. 8
   noun

   An arrest.

   The collar was made less than twenty-four hours after the hunky bastards butchered the old man.

Etymology

From Middle English coler, borrowed from Old French coler (Modern French collier), from Late Latin collāre, from Latin collāris, from collum (“neck”). Cognate with Gothic 𐌷𐌰𐌻𐍃 (hals, “neck”), Old English heals (“neck”). Compare Spanish cuello (“neck”). More at halse. Doublet of collet.