collared Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. verb take into custody
    nab; cop; pick up; apprehend; nail; arrest; collar.
    • the police nabbed the suspected criminals
  2. verb seize by the neck or collar
    collar.
  3. verb furnish with a collar
    collar.
    • collar the dog

WordNet

Col"lared adjective
Definitions
  1. Wearing a collar. "Collared with gold." Chaucer.
  2. (Her.) Wearing a collar; -- said of a man or beast used as a bearing when a collar is represented as worn around the neck or loins.
  3. Rolled up and bound close with a string; as, collared beef. See To collar beef, under Collar, v. t.

Webster 1913