as in traveller
a person who travels for pleasure
every year raucous rubbernecks by the busload descend upon the city for its famed Mardi Gras
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as in to gawk
to look long and hard in wonder or surprise
thoughtless drivers pausing on the highway to rubberneck at the accident
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Recent Examples of rubberneck
Ralph Keyes, Time, 1 Apr. 2021
What can only be described as a rubberneck-inducing, Alfalfa hair situation ensues, rendering her date-night vibe—a formfitting V-neck pink dress and no-makeup makeup look—virtually irreparable.
—Kate Branch, Vogue, 15 July 2018
Marco Grob, Vulture, 22 Mar. 2024
For rubbernecking readers Fall is peak season for celebrity memoirs.
—Christopher Borrelli, Chicago Tribune, 13 Sep. 2023
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Noun
Flimflam felt better in the mouth than swindle, and rubberneck was a more agreeable verb than crane.
—Ralph Keyes, Time, 1 Apr. 2021
What can only be described as a rubberneck-inducing, Alfalfa hair situation ensues, rendering her date-night vibe—a formfitting V-neck pink dress and no-makeup makeup look—virtually irreparable.
—Kate Branch, Vogue, 15 July 2018
Verb
Or a picture of the grimy, rubbernecking cameraman of Nightcrawler.
—Marco Grob, Vulture, 22 Mar. 2024
For rubbernecking readers Fall is peak season for celebrity memoirs.
—Christopher Borrelli, Chicago Tribune, 13 Sep. 2023
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for rubberneck
Verb
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After a few decades of gawking at the problem, Washington, under the Biden administration, rallied 139 countries to do something.—
Jennifer M. Harris,
Foreign Affairs,
22 Apr. 2025
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Early in the hour, Lochlan is again gawking at a nude Saxon.—
Alan Sepinwall,
Rolling Stone,
23 Feb. 2025
Noun
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Related article Venice is watching tourists’ every move Those 30 centimeters are the maximum the engineers estimate the land could be raised without destabilization.—
Julia Buckley,
CNN Money,
4 May 2025
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Few cities garner as much packing anxiety for tourists as Paris, a fact I’m often reminded of after moving to the city in 2023.—
Kristy Alpert,
Travel + Leisure,
3 May 2025
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The goal was to execute highly choreographed, ultra-precise movements, all while staring directly at the audience.—
Andrew Lampert,
Artforum,
1 May 2025
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At school the next day, he was treated as an art piece, in which his classmates stopped and stared.—
Akili King,
Essence,
30 Apr. 2025
Noun
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But according to flight attendants, many travelers are regularly breaking the rules of good airplane behavior, often without even realizing it.—
Alesandra Dubin,
Southern Living,
14 May 2025
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The Transportation Security Administration (TSA) previously said that over 80 percent of air travelers already present REAL ID-compliant identification.—
Suzanne Blake,
MSNBC Newsweek,
14 May 2025
Verb
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Nuggets and Clippers players gazed up at the jumbotron together and tried to litigate the nanoseconds.—
Bennett Durando,
Denver Post,
27 Apr. 2025
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During his four-year interregnum at Mar-a-Lago, Trump gazed down the fairways and concluded that Joe Biden was too diminished to win again.—
David Remnick,
New Yorker,
27 Apr. 2025
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“Rubberneck.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/rubberneck. Accessed 19 May. 2025.
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