Home › Words › R › rubberneckingrubbernecking/ˈɹʊbɚˌnɛkɪŋ/rubbernecking means the act of slowing down while driving a vehicle, in order to see the scene of an accident.Among words judged in Lexicurio's Arena, rubbernecking ranks #1,987 of 42,747 for Qualifying.rubbernecking is pronounced /ˈɹʊbɚˌnɛkɪŋ/.EtymologyFrom rubber + neck + -ing.nounThe act of slowing down while driving a vehicle, in order to see the scene of an accident.e.g.“"The resulting wreckage blocks the entire southbound side of the Interstate, while the inevitable rubbernecking slows traffic on the northbound side to little more than the speed of a brisk walk."” — 2004, Robert G. Ferrell, Tangent: A Novel, →ISBN, page 131:Generally, any act of observation in a manner considered unduly overt or otherwise unseemly.e.g.“The children had never been in such a large museum and their rubbernecking was rather amusing.”Definitions & examples from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 3.0).