Usually means: Gawk, often causing traffic delays.
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We found 23 dictionaries that define the word rubberneck:

General (20 matching dictionaries)
  1. rubberneck: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. rubberneck: Merriam-Webster
  3. rubberneck: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. rubberneck: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. rubberneck: Collins English Dictionary
  6. rubberneck: Vocabulary.com
  7. Rubberneck, rubberneck: Wordnik
  8. rubberneck: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. rubberneck: Wiktionary
  10. rubberneck: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. rubberneck: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. rubberneck: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. rubberneck: Dictionary.com
  14. Rubberneck (album), Rubberneck: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  15. rubberneck: Rhymezone
  16. rubberneck: FreeDictionary.org
  17. rubberneck: Mnemonic Dictionary
  18. rubberneck: TheFreeDictionary.com

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. rubberneck: Encyclopedia

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. rubberneck, rubberneck: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. rubberneck: English slang and colloquialisms used in the United Kingdom

(Note: See rubbernecked as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  Someone who engages in rubbernecking, or turning and staring.
noun:  (US, obsolete) A tourist.
noun:  Someone or something with a flexible neck.
verb:  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.
verb:  To cause (someone) to watch in fascinated horror, as if rubbernecking to see a roadside accident.

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