NOUN
- a tourist who is visiting sights of interest
- a person who stares inquisitively
VERB
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strain to watch; stare curiously
The cars slowed down and the drivers rubbernecked after the accident
How To Use rubberneck In A Sentence
- I didn't feel like I was watching the response; I felt like I was rubbernecking.
- He never was one for being interested in that kind of thing, he hates rubbernecks with a passion.
- Ignore the title, with its whiff of poverty rubbernecking - this is terrific. Times, Sunday Times
- traffic was slowed by curious rubberneckers
- I felt like a rubbernecker, but was compelled to know more about this lady. Luxury's 'Freak Category'
- A number of people were starting to gather, rubbernecking at the fire.
- It is no lollygagging rubbernecker of sorrow. Times, Sunday Times
- It's a hard place to miss, especially with all the gawkers rubbernecking for any celebrities from the lower floors.
- Well, the boffins reckon it's related to the "rubbernecking" concept - the process whereby you try and drive by an accident without having a shufti but "our emotions of concern, fear and curiosity cause us to stare out the window at the accident and slow to a crawl as we drive by"... "Porn makes you bind" - distractions distract...
- It is a restaurant that is popular in terms of both culinary delivery and good old rubbernecking social buzz. Times, Sunday Times
