NOUN
  1. a tourist who is visiting sights of interest
  2. a person who stares inquisitively
VERB
  1. strain to watch; stare curiously
    The cars slowed down and the drivers rubbernecked after the accident
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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
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