Rubbernecker vs Rubbernecked - What's the difference?
rubbernecker | rubbernecked |
Someone who watches, a spectator, in the sense that they crane their neck as though it were made of rubber. Especially those who watch accidents.
(rubberneck)
Someone who engages in rubbernecking, or turning and staring.
(US, obsolete) A tourist.
Someone or something with a flexible neck.
* 1912 , Edward C. Wood, Electrically Operated Bell for Submarine Signaling [http://www.google.com/patents?id=p51jAAAAEBAJ], US Patent 1186961, line 57:
* 1972 , , The Will to Die [http://books.google.com/books?id=A4QRAAAAMAAJ],page 59:
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.
As a noun rubbernecker
is someone who watches, a spectator, in the sense that they crane their neck as though it were made of rubber especially those who watch accidents.As a verb rubbernecked is
(rubberneck).rubbernecker
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Noun
- The minor accident caused a traffic jam as rubberneckers slowed down to get a good view of the battered cars.
rubbernecked
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Verb
(head)rubberneck
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Noun
(en noun)- "A suitable washer B1 and rubberneck B2, both of well known description, are provided to form with clapper arm B3 a watertight joint..."
- "Hi, ' rubberneck !' -- he clutched at her pear-like breast jutting from her sweater — 'how long did you think you'll duck me?'"
Derived terms
* rubberneck busSee also
* bystander * leatherneck * onlooker * redneck * roughneckVerb
(en verb)- The driver was so busy rubbernecking , trying to get a good view of the accident, that he was almost part of another accident.