Bottleneck

What do we mean by bottleneck?

A narrow or obstructed section, as of a highway or a pipeline. noun

A point or an area of traffic congestion. noun

A hindrance to progress or production. noun

The narrow part of a bottle near the top. noun

A style of guitar playing in which an object, such as a piece of glass or metal, is passed across the strings to achieve a gliding sound. noun

An abrupt and severe reduction in the number of individuals during the history of a species of a population, often resulting in the loss of diversity from the gene pool. noun

To slow down or impede by creating an obstruction. transitive verb

A location or situation in which otherwise rapid progress is impeded.

A point at which road traffic slows due to congestion or narrowing of the roadway.

An impasse.

A narrowing.

Same as obstruct. transitive verb

To become narrower as one approaches a point; -- said of roads. intransitive verb

The narrow portion that forms the pouring spout of a bottle; the neck of a bottle. noun

In traffic, any narrowing of the road, especially resulting in a delay. noun

Any delay; part of a process that is too slow or cumbersome. noun

To slow by causing a bottleneck. verb

To form a bottleneck. verb

Slow down or impede by creating an obstruction verb

The narrow portion that forms the pouring spout of a bottle; the neck of a bottle.

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.

A co-worker who takes so long to do their job they make every project take longer than it should. Urban Dictionary

Computer-related definition: A part of your computer internals is slowing your entire system down. Urban Dictionary

A bottleneck is a point of congestion in a production system (such as an assembly line or a computer network) that occurs when workloads arrive too quickly for the production process to handle. Urban Dictionary

Bottleneck is a thing or a person that slows down a flow or a process Urban Dictionary

A universal safe-word for seshes, when a friend is going overboard you use this word. Urban Dictionary

When you stick your flaccid penis in a bottle then make it go erect inside the bottle Urban Dictionary

When something or someone in your life just does not allow you to succeed. Urban Dictionary

Removing the cap of a beer bottle in one's anus while using said beer bottle for anal stimulation. Urban Dictionary

While smoking Marijuana communally among a group, a bottlenecker is an individual, when passed, keeps smoking the joint/spliff much longer than they should resulting in others frequently reminding them to pass the joint/spliff to the next recipient. The individual effectively creates a bottle neck in the flow of weed being consumed within the group. Urban Dictionary

When the skin of a circumsized penis comes over the head, especially when cold. Urban Dictionary

Words that are spelled similarly to bottleneck:
bottleneck, bottle neck, bottle-neck, bottlenecks, littleneck.

Words that are triggered by (strongly associated with) the word bottleneck:
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Words that rhyme with bottleneck:
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Adjectives that are often used to describe bottleneck:
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Nouns that are often described by the adjective bottleneck:
resource, operations, effects, areas, machine, parts, operation, stages, notion, growth, activities, stage.

Words that sound like bottleneck:
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