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noun
- The act of slow down, slowing down whilst driving a vehicle, so as to look at the scene of an accident.
- 2004, Robert G. Ferrell, Tangent: A Novel http://books.google.com/books?id=33a_xylSrhwC, ISBN 1589612760, page 131:
- "The resulting wreckage blocks the entire southbound side of the Interstate, while the inevitable slows traffic on the northbound side to little more than the speed of a brisk walk."
- Generally, any act of observation in a manner considered unduly overt or otherwise unseemly.
- The children had never been in such a large museum and their was rather amusing.
verb
- (present participle of, rubberneck)
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