collar

Definitions

• Anything that encircles the neck.
• A piece of meat from the neck of an animal.
• (technology) Any encircling device or structure.
• (in compounds) Of or pertaining to a certain category of professions as symbolized by typical clothing.
• (botany) The neck or line of junction between the root of a plant and its stem.
• A ringlike part of a mollusk in connection with the esophagus.
• (nautical) An eye formed in the bight or bend of a shroud or stay to go over the masthead; also, a rope to which certain parts of rigging, as dead-eyes, are secured.
• (slang) An arrest.
• (finance) A trading strategy using options such that there is both an upper limit on profit and a lower limit on loss, constructed through taking equal but opposite positions in a put and a call with different strike prices.