Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. Slang A gawking onlooker.
Wiktionary
- n. Someone who watches, a spectator, in the sense that they crane their neck as though it were made of rubber. Especially those who watch accidents.
WordNet 3.0
- n. a person who stares inquisitively
Examples
“If I went to New York I would be worse than a rubbernecker.”
The Huffington Post: Todd Greene: Irene In New York and Natural Disaster Rubbernecking
“Becoming a Google rubbernecker -- gawking at someone's life from afar and finding something insulting or embarrassing there -- reminds me of the prank of pasting a "Kick Me Hard" sign on an unwitting victim's back.”
The Huffington Post: Pamela Haag, Ph.D.: In a Google World, Do You Have the 'Right to Be Forgotten'?
“I felt like a rubbernecker, but was compelled to know more about this lady.”
“An auction of Madoff family belongings held at New York's Sheraton Hotel and Towers in November arguably displayed Americans' fascination with the abyss -- but the rubbernecker-bidders were also doing some good.”
“The whole incident had made me feel indescribably dirty, like a rubbernecker at the site of a car crash.”
“An auction of Madoff family belongings held at New York's Sheraton Hotel and Towers in November arguably displayed Americans' fascination with the abyss--but the rubbernecker-bidders were also doing some good.”
“I gunned the accelerator and swerved violently to get around the rubbernecker in front of me.”
“With the unblinking eye of Google's Street Views, anyone can be a virtual rubbernecker.”
“The media rubbernecker crowd, who always show up after an accident, will be tuning in to see what the all new, improved, better taste I-Man looks like.”
“By the time even Newfoundland got through the danger zone, the rubbernecker factor was clearly gone.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘rubbernecker’.
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Wrongheads
Insults that make me laugh. Some of these are re-contextualized because they sound like insults to me.
wretched, dasdardly, sniveling, dingbat, rankle, vapid, ninny, nincompoop, dolt, imbecile, fucktard, scoundrel and 173 more...
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~~Olde-Fashioned Insults~~
ragamuffin, muttonchops, tatterdemalion, nincompoop, whippersnapper, bootlicker, backscratcher, loggerhead, weisenheimer, hornswoggler, thimblerigger, quacksalver and 111 more...
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Great Race Horse Names10
poetry in motion - words at work.
illuminator, bonk, testify to love, passion for gumbo, grimacing, above a whisper, jazz ensemble, dinner in the diner, marginal reality, scalding passion, you wont like it, umber and 216 more...
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Odd-Ball
Just plain fun to say and wonder about their origins.
rapscallion, ramahanukwanzmas, cockamamie, nincompoop, hemidemisemiquaver, antiinterdenomina..., cattywampus, ragamuffin, tatterdemalion, blunderbuss, brobdingnagian, tintinnabulation and 127 more...
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EN - funny (single) words
"Fornication" is not equal to "formication".
Words with funny meaning, spelling or both.barratry, bastinado, bezonian, bibcock, bibliobibuli, biffy, bodewash, boeotian, boondoggle, borborygmic, bosky, brobdingnagian and 729 more...
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Least Favorites
choicest, sassafras, vomit, amorous, testes, agrarian, egregious, lactate, pus, crotchety, cul-de-sac, precipice and 74 more...
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words that are fascinating
braggadocio, mollusk, myrrh, bouillabaisse, golliwog, prorogue, bowdlerize, rubbernecker, antediluvian, anomie, toothsome, primordial and 12 more...
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