bottleneck

== English == === Etymology === From bottle +‎ neck. === Pronunciation === === Noun === bottleneck (plural bottlenecks) The narrow portion that forms the pouring spout of a bottle; the neck of a bottle. (music) A portion of a bottleneck placed on the finger and used as a guitar slide. (figurative) In traffic, any narrowing of the road, especially resulting in a delay. (by extension) The part of a process that is too slow or cumbersome. ==== Derived terms ==== ==== Translations ==== === Verb === bottleneck (third-person singular simple present bottlenecks, present participle bottlenecking, simple past and past participle bottlenecked) (transitive) To slow by causing a bottleneck. (intransitive) To form a bottleneck. ==== Translations ==== === Further reading === bottleneck on Wikipedia.Wikipedia “bottleneck”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.