Thesaurus results for RUBBERNECKER

rubbernecker

noun

as in tourist

a person who travels for pleasure a shop selling the kind of tacky souvenirs that rubberneckers can't seem to get enough of

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Recent Examples of rubbernecker The rubberneckers who gather across the street are represented by crowd noise, and at one point a handful of cops stalk down the aisles of the theater, guns pointed right at Sonny. —

Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 31 Mar. 2026 So Wembanyama naturally decided to toy with his rubberneckers. —

Jeff McDonald, San Antonio Express-News, 21 Mar. 2026 The contest winner—a very tall lookalike in roller skates—basked in attention from park-going singles and rubberneckers just outside the North entrance. —

Madeline Hirsch, InStyle, 9 Mar. 2026 The rubberneckers usually got lucky, especially in the beginning, when the Grill really was a hangout for the downtown film scene. —

Tori Latham, Robb Report, 5 Oct. 2025 Most were out of goodness and concern; others were just rubberneckers looking to see what was going on. —

Salena Zito, The Washington Examiner, 13 Aug. 2025

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Noun

As the city morphs into a luxury tourist destination, struggling small businesses are pushing to retain the character that drew many tourists in the first place.

— Laura Millan, Bloomberg, 27 Apr. 2026
There are clean bathrooms and fresh water, which delight the tourists who filed out of a bus on a Thursday last June.

— Jonathan Bullington, Chicago Tribune, 26 Apr. 2026