Synonyms for rubber-necker
- noun
Definitions
- n. 1
A person who rubbernecks; someone who cranes their neck as though it were made of rubber to see something (such as a tourist attraction) or to watch an event (such as an accident); a rubberneck.
The minor accident caused a traffic jam as rubberneckers slowed down to get a good view of the battered cars.
Related words
- Other spellings
- rubbernecker
Forms
- Plural
- rubber-neckers → rubbernecks, spectators, gawkers, on-lookers…
Example sentences
- spectator Tom has no interest whatsoever in spectator sports.
- rubberneck I felt like a rubberneck as I watched the firefighters battle the blaze.
By length
- 5 letters
- gaper
- 6 letters
- gawker2, starer2, gawper
- 9 letters
- spectator3
- 10 letters
- rubberneck
The small number after each word is its number of syllables (gawker2 = 2 syllables).