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RUBBERNECK
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Dictionary entry overview: What does rubberneck mean?
• RUBBERNECK (noun)
The noun RUBBERNECK has 2 senses:
1. a tourist who is visiting sights of interest
2. a person who stares inquisitively
Familiarity information: RUBBERNECK used as a noun is rare.
• RUBBERNECK (verb)
The verb RUBBERNECK has 1 sense:
1. strain to watch; stare curiously
Familiarity information: RUBBERNECK used as a verb is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
A tourist who is visiting sights of interest
Classified under:
Nouns denoting people
Synonyms:
excursionist; rubberneck; sightseer; tripper
Hypernyms ("rubberneck" is a kind of...):
holidaymaker; tourer; tourist (someone who travels for pleasure)
Sense 2
Meaning:
A person who stares inquisitively
Classified under:
Nouns denoting people
Synonyms:
rubberneck; rubbernecker
Hypernyms ("rubberneck" is a kind of...):
looker; spectator; viewer; watcher; witness (a close observer; someone who looks at something (such as an exhibition of some kind))
Derivation:
rubberneck (strain to watch; stare curiously)
Conjugation: |




Past simple: rubbernecked


Past participle: rubbernecked


-ing form: rubbernecking


Sense 1
Meaning:
Strain to watch; stare curiously
Classified under:
Verbs of seeing, hearing, feeling
Context example:
The cars slowed down and the drivers rubbernecked after the accident
Hypernyms (to "rubberneck" is one way to...):
watch (look attentively)
Sentence frame:
Somebody ----s
Derivation:
rubber-necking (going about to look at places of interest)
rubberneck (a person who stares inquisitively)
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