rubberneck

rubberneck englannista suomeksi

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rubberneck englanniksi

1. Someone who engages in rubbernecking, or turning and staring.

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2. (RQ:Salinger Catcher)

3. A tourist.

4. Someone or something with a flexible neck.

5. 1912, Edward C. Wood, Electrically Operated Bell for Submarine Signaling http://www.google.com/patents?id=p51jAAAAEBAJ, US Patent 1186961, line 57:

"A suitable washer B1 and rubberneck B2, both of well known description, are provided to form with clapper arm B3 a watertight joint..."

6. {{quote-book|en|year=1972|author=Can Themba|title=The Will to Die|pageurl=http://books.google.com/books?id=A4QRAAAAMAAJ|page=59

7. 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.

''The driver was so busy rubbernecking, trying to get a good view of the accident, that he was almost part of another accident.''

8. To cause (someone) to watch in fascinated horror, as if rubbernecking to see a roadside accident.

9. (quote-journal)