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Discover LudwigThe word 'rubber-necking' is correct and can be used in written English
It is typically used to describe someone who looks at something of interest to them for too long, such as someone staring at something that has happened in the street for too long. Example sentence: The driver was rubber-necking in hopes of finding out what was happening at the scene of the accident.
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We're not rubber-necking.
Rubber-necking was, too, of course, along with that universal German vice, schadenfreude.
Other motorists seemed torn between covetous rubber-necking and exhibiting their Clarkson tendency.
It was an immaculate autumn day, perfect weather for rubber-necking a seaside calamity.
Driver Peter Croft says everyone was rubber-necking all the way down the M23.
"I went down to ground zero, but it felt bad being there, like rubber-necking at an accident.
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And I strongly suspect there aren't as many delays caused by "rubber necking" as they let on.
Inevitably, after all the build up, there was an element of rubber necking to it: Would the great athlete end up embarrassing himself?
They are the ones clogging the motorways with their rubber necks.
Until forced to do otherwise, we would rather pruriently rubber-neck Tiger Woods's misadventures than to confront real human tragedy.
Adds Tony Garland: "If I told Jimi to 'kiss my arse', he'd answer, 'You've got a rubber neck, do it yourself' with a sly grin.
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