"thickneck" meaning in English

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  "etymology_text": "thick + neck",
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          "ref": "1996, Michael Drinkard, Disobedience, page 64:",
          "text": "At 58.9K, he'd be handing over practically nine thousand dollars a year to California and to the county for the privilege of being shaken down by these thicknecks. And the shittiest thing of it was, he never had a problem with paying taxes.",
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          "ref": "2002, Peter Konecny, Gogol's Ghost, page 131:",
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        "A thuggish enforcer; a goon."
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        "An onion that fails to develop a bulb."
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  "etymology_text": "thick + neck",
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