noun The narrow portion that forms the pouring spout of a bottle; the neck of a bottle. A portion of a bottleneck placed on the finger and used as a guitar slide.
noun A portion of a bottleneck placed on the finger and used as a guitar slide.
noun In traffic, any narrowing of the road, especially resulting in a delay.
noun The part of a process that is too slow or cumbersome due to the lessening of available throughput.
It is easy to create entries; processing the paperwork is the bottleneck.
verb To slow by causing a bottleneck.
The merge bottlenecked the traffic every morning.
verb To form a bottleneck.
The traffic bottlenecked at the merge every morning.