"pencil-neck" meaning in All languages combined

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        "A person with a very thin neck."
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          "text": "That pencil-neck from systems isn't going to tell me what I can't do.",
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          "ref": "1977, Pete Cicero, Martin Margulies (lyrics and music), “Pencil Neck Geek”, performed by Freddie Blassie & The Geekettes",
          "text": "Mom said, “Sell it to the circus, what the heck.” / Dad said, “Nope, this one's a pencil neck / And if there's one thing lower than a side show freak / It's a grit eatin', scum suckin', pencil neck geek.”",
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          "ref": "2020, Kevin Sullivan, Mary Jordan, quoting Donald Trump, Trump on Trial, Simon and Schuster, page 217",
          "text": "On Thursday, March 28, Trump took the stage in Grand Rapids, Michigan, for a campaign rally, where he unleashed a new schoolyard nickname: “little pencil-neck Adam Schiff.”",
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        "An insubstantial person; a weakling."
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        "(idiomatic, US, derogatory) An insubstantial person; a weakling."
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