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rubbernecker; rubberneck noun a person who stares with curiosity, especially a motorist who slows to view an accident US, 1934- [T]he blues men [meths drinkers] may become exhibitionists. Rubbernecks would attempt to photograph them from the windows of air-conditioned coaches. — Geoffrey Fletcher, Down Among the Meths Men, p. 22, 1966
- Back to the street–rubberneckers swarming. — James Ellroy, White Jazz, p. 38, 1992
- As soon as you tell people about your separation, they behave like rubberneckers at a car accident — Anka Radakovich, The Wild Girls Club, p. 40, 1994
- A few ordinary uniformed officers were standing around trying to disperse the rubberneckers who were disrupting the flow of traffic. — Greg Williams, Diamond Geezers, p. 203, 1997
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