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The act of slowing down while driving a vehicle, in order to see the scene of an accident.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: uncountable
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Generally, any act of observation in a manner considered unduly overt or otherwise unseemly.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: uncountable
Examples
- The children had never been in such a large museum and their rubbernecking was rather amusing.
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present participle and gerund of rubberneck
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: form-of, gerund, participle, present
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From rubber + neck + -ing.
Across languages
Translations
7 source translations are retained for this English entry.
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French:
faire le badaud
— slowing down to see the scene of an accident
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German:
Gaffen
— slowing down to see the scene of an accident
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Spanish:
curiosear
— slowing down to see the scene of an accident
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Dutch:
ramptoerisme
— unseemly act of observation
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German:
Gaffen
— unseemly act of observation
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German:
Spannen
— unseemly act of observation
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Spanish:
cotilleo
— unseemly act of observation