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bottleneck
noun
- the neck of a bottle
- any place, as a narrow road, where traffic is slowed up or halted
- any point at which movement or progress is slowed up because much must be funneled through it: a bottleneck in production
adjective
designating or of a style of playing blues guitar in which notes and chords are formed by stopping a string or strings with a broken-off glass bottleneck, knife blade, etc.
transitive verb
to act as a bottleneck in
See bottleneck in American Heritage Dictionary 4
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