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- verb Simple past tense and past participle of
rubberneck .
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Examples
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They garnered their fair share of rubbernecked and discreet stares because of the teenager's hair.
Carleton Kendrick: Are You Embarrassed By Your Kids' Appearance? Carleton Kendrick 2011
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In the past I've occasionally rubbernecked episodes from the megalomaniacal empire that is Tyra Banks' and Bankable Productions' America's Next Top Model for kicks.
Holly Cara Price: Rubbernecking: America's Next Top Model, Cycle 16 Premiere Holly Cara Price 2011
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They garnered their fair share of rubbernecked and discreet stares because of the teenager's hair.
Carleton Kendrick: Are You Embarrassed By Your Kids' Appearance? Carleton Kendrick 2011
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As Mr. Avsar oversaw its transportation into the pristine white gallery space, traffic slowed on Bowery as drivers rubbernecked to see whether the vehicle would fit through the doorway.
A Wreck of Art That Was No Accident Erica Orden 2011
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Thousands more, most of them black, rubbernecked outside the fence.
Satch, Dizzy & Rapid Robert Timothy M. Gay 2010
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Mary Jane and Whitney laughed, and a group of guys in long, baggy shorts totally rubbernecked as we passed.
Lifted Wendy Toliver 2010
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Everyone rubbernecked, but we couldn't see or hear -- the cross was lowered for him to be hammered onto it and then lifted upwards.
What a Way to Spend Easter: Which Way to the Crucifixion? 2010
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Thousands more, most of them black, rubbernecked outside the fence.
Satch, Dizzy & Rapid Robert Timothy M. Gay 2010
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Everyone rubbernecked, but we couldn't see or hear -- the cross was lowered for him to be hammered onto it and then lifted upwards.
Virginia M. Moncrieff: What a Way to Spend Easter: Which Way to the Crucifixion? 2010
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Mary Jane and Whitney laughed, and a group of guys in long, baggy shorts totally rubbernecked as we passed.
Lifted Wendy Toliver 2010
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