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Definition of Rubber-necking

1. Noun. Going about to look at places of interest.

Lexicographical Neighbors of Rubber-necking

Literary usage of Rubber-necking

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Argonaut Letters by Jerome Alfred Hart (1900)
"The slang phrase, " rubber-necking," expresses it exactly. Even at the Paris Exposition, while there were no Michael Angelo ceilings or Raphael walls, ..."

2. A Desk-book of Errors in English, Including Notes on Colloquialisms and by Frank H. Vizetelly (1920)
"... that ia known beforehand to be of questionable worth. rubber should not be used as a synonym fo» "crane" ; nor rubber-necking for "craning the neck. ..."

3. Readers' Guide to Periodical Literature by H.W. Wilson Company (1916)
"Everybody's 34:393-4 Mr '16 Brown, Ray, 1865- rubber-necking in New York. Everybody's 34: 105-14 Ja '16 To an ingenue. ..."

4. The Dial edited by Francis Fisher Browne (1916)
"Yale New York of the Novelists — V. Arthur B. Maurice Bookman New York, Rubber-Necking in. Ray Brown . Even/body's Painter, The Public and the. ..."

5. Victor Ollnee's Discipline by Hamlin Garland (1911)
"You'll see everybody rubber-necking over our fence to-day. They've begun it already." "That's so," agreed a third man. "Why didn't he tell us the truth ..."

6. Victor Ollnee's Discipline by Hamlin Garland (1911)
"You'll see everybody rubber-necking over our fence to-day. They've begun it already." "That's so," agreed a third man. "Why didn't he tell us the ..."

7. Wilson's Photographic Magazine (1909)
"If there is much of a crowd present he will have to be quite a diplomat in order to keep restless, rubber-necking humanity quiet and away from the front of ..."

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