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- noun Plural form of
rubbernecker .
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Examples
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Brisbane traffic chaos as clean-up volunteers swamp flood-affected suburbs CREWS trying to restore power to Brisbane say they are being hampered by congestion and "rubberneckers" in flooded suburbs.
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To those who are verbally attacking the "rubberneckers," do you expect them to speed through a one-lane accident zone, endangering the lives of the emergency responders and state police?
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Friends and family are walking archives of our lives, but usually we can count on them to exercise discretion and to contextualize, if only because we're all mutual conspirators in each other's lives, and not ruthlessly dispassionate algorithms, or casual Google rubberneckers.
Pamela Haag, Ph.D.: In a Google World, Do You Have the 'Right to Be Forgotten'? Ph.D. Pamela Haag 2011
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But someone clearly objects to rubberneckers such as me coming to gawp at Hitler's legacy: on dozens of the boarded-up windows, someone has spraypainted "Touris raus!"
Without tourists, Berlin is stuffed. But try telling that to the angry natives | Helen Pidd 2011
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I know I'm not alone when I say that I despise rubberneckers.
Todd Greene: Irene In New York and Natural Disaster Rubbernecking Todd Greene 2011
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Friends and family are walking archives of our lives, but usually we can count on them to exercise discretion and to contextualize, if only because we're all mutual conspirators in each other's lives, and not ruthlessly dispassionate algorithms, or casual Google rubberneckers.
Pamela Haag, Ph.D.: In a Google World, Do You Have the 'Right to Be Forgotten'? Ph.D. Pamela Haag 2011
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Every board member, every manager and coach from every Majors team, and every Angels parent attended, as well as a throng of rubberneckers keen to see Del finally get his due.
Parents Behaving Badly Scott Gummer 2011
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Every board member, every manager and coach from every Majors team, and every Angels parent attended, as well as a throng of rubberneckers keen to see Del finally get his due.
Parents Behaving Badly Scott Gummer 2011
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Flamewars attract many page views from the participants and rubberneckers, and that means more ad revenue.
The Volokh Conspiracy » Anonymous Comments and Modern Tort Law and Antidiscrimination Law 2010
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But it also set some kind of TV speed record for attracting rubberneckers.
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