rubberneck

• POS: Noun, Verb (intransitive)
• HYPHEN: rub=ber=neck

OXFORD DICTIONARY

rubberneck, n. & v. colloq.
--n. a person who stares inquisitively or stupidly.
--v.intr. act in this way.

THESAURUS

rubberneck

Paul Pry, Peeping Tom, adventurer, alpinist, astronaut, be curious, burn with curiosity, busybody, butt-in, buttinsky, campaign, camper, climber, comers and goers, commuter, cosmopolite, cruise, cruiser, dig around for, dig up, eavesdropper, excursionist, explorer, eye, fare, gape, gaup, gawk, gaze, globe-girdler, globe-trot, globe-trotter, go abroad, go on safari, go overseas, go slumming, goer, goggle, gossip, hajji, hit the trail, inquire, inquirer, inquisitive, inquisitor, intermeddler, interrogate, jaunt, jet set, jet-setter, journey, journeyer, kibitzer, lionize, make a journey, make a pilgrimage, make a trip, mariner, meddler, mountaineer, nose around for, nose out, nosy Parker, ogle, onlooking, palmer, passenger, passerby, pathfinder, peer, peregrinate, pilgrim, pilgrimage, pioneer, pragmatist, prier, pry, querier, querist, query, question, questioner, quidnunc, quiz, range the world, rubber, rubbernecker, sailor, scopophiliac, see the lions, see the sights, seek, sight-see, sight-seeing, sightseer, slummer, snoop, snooper, spectating, spectatorial, stare, straphanger, take a trip, take the road, tour, tourer, tourist, trailblazer, trailbreaker, transient, traveler, trek, trekker, tripper, viator, visiting fireman, voortrekker, voyage, voyager, voyageur, voyeur, want to know, wayfare, wayfarer, world-traveler, yenta

ROGET THESAURUS

rubberneck

Spectator

N spectator, beholder, observer, looker-on, onlooker, witness, eyewitness, bystander, passer by, sightseer, rubberneck, rubbernecker, spy, sentinel.

VB witness, behold, look on, gawk, rubber, rubberneck.

Curiosity

N curiosity, interest, thirst for knowledge, thirst for truth, curiosity, curiousness, inquiring mind, inquisitiveness, omnivorous intellect, devouring mind, inquirer, sightseer, quidnunc, newsmonger, Paul Pry, eavesdropper, gossip, rubberneck, intellectual, seeker, seeker after truth, curious, inquisitive, burning with curiosity, overcurious, inquiring, prying, snoopy, nosy, peering, prurient, inquisitorial, inquisitory, curious as a cat, agape, what's the matter? what next? consumed with curios, curiosity killed the cat, satisfaction brought it back, curiouser and curiouser.

VB be curious, take an interest in, stare, gape, prick up the ears, see sights, lionize, pry, nose, rubberneck.