OXFORD 9000
📚 noun • entry_id 40817

rubberneck

/ˈɹʌbɚˌnɛk/
Meanings (ES + gloss)
mirón
Someone who engages in rubbernecking, or turning and staring.
We must have looked gorgeous. And what made it worse, there was at least a hundred rubbernecks that didn't have anything better to do than stand around and watch everyone falling a…
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📚 verb • entry_id 40818

rubberneck

/ˈɹʌbɚˌnɛk/
Meanings (ES + gloss)
curiosear • mirar • sapear
To watch by craning the neck (as though it were made of rubber), especially if the observer and observed are in motion relative to each other.
The driver was so busy rubbernecking, trying to get a good view of the accident, that he was almost part of another accident.
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