Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun One who turns his head to look or gaze at something or some person he has passed, or at anything that attracts attention; one who gazes eagerly or awkwardly at the sights of the town.
- To stare like a rubber-neck; go about staring at or prying into things; rubber.
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Examples
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We rubber-neck on the highway but we keep on driving.
Judith Acosta, LISW, CHT: Parricide (Part 2): Is Our Detached Society to Blame? Judith Acosta 2010
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We rubber-neck on the highway but we keep on driving.
Judith Acosta, LISW, CHT: Parricide (Part 2): Is Our Detached Society to Blame? Judith Acosta 2010
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Why, oh why, do people slow down to a crawl and rubber-neck no matter how minor the incident?
wilberteets Diary Entry wilberteets 2007
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So, it seems money wasn't the driving force behind the decision to re-open the entire beach community so much as grumbling from mainlanders who like to rubber-neck.
Archive 2004-12-01 Beach Blogger 2004
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So, it seems money wasn't the driving force behind the decision to re-open the entire beach community so much as grumbling from mainlanders who like to rubber-neck.
Beach Opens to Public Sunday Night Beach Blogger 2004
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-- Take two rubber-neck clams and after stuffing them with chestnuts fry them over a slow fire.
The Silly Syclopedia Noah [pseud.] Lott
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Bumpus really had another name, though few people ever thought to call him by it; yet in the register at school he was marked down as Cornelius Jasper Hawtree; while the fellow who had that strange "rubber-neck" that he was so fond of stretching to its limit, was Conrad Stedman.
The Boy Scouts on Sturgeon Island or Marooned Among the Game-fish Poachers Herbert Carter
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On Sundays we could charter one of the big "rubber-neck" autos and make the round trip to Margate, Ramsgate, Broadstairs, Deal and Dover.
The Emma Gees Herbert Wes McBride
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Take two rubber-neck clams and, after stuffing them with peanuts, fry them over a slow fire.
Skiddoo! Hugh McHugh
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When the shoe occupies the same shape as a dozen rubber-neck clams serve with vanilla wafers and horseradish.
The Silly Syclopedia Noah [pseud.] Lott
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