rubbernecked

Verb

rubberneck (third-person singular simple present rubbernecks, present participle rubbernecking, simple past and past participle rubbernecked)

1. (transitive) To watch by craning the neck (as though it were made of rubber), especially if the observer and observed are in motion relative to each other.
   • The driver was so busy rubbernecking, trying to get a good view of the accident, that he was almost part of another accident.
2. (transitive) To cause (someone) to watch in fascinated horror, as if rubbernecking to see a roadside accident.
   • Hoover’s books go down like a T.M.I. Facebook confessional, rubbernecking you in from the first sentence. Certain patterns quickly emerge.2023 July 6, Pamela Paul, “What’s the Story With Colleen Hoover?”, in The New York Times

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