rubber-necker

plural rubber-neckers

1. alternativeAlternative form of rubbernecker.

   He is a great "rubber-necker." What he don't see aint worth looking at.

   1899 March 25, “A Bobbin Boy’s Essay on His Boss”, in Jos[eph] M. Wade, editor, Fibre and Fabric: A Record of American Textile Industries in the Cotton and Woolen Trade, volume XXIX, number 734, Boston, Mass.: Jos. M. Wade, →OCLC, page 63, column 2

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   I suppose that fellow was a rubber-necker, and got killed peeping over the trenches.

   1899, Stephen Bonsal, “Under the Mango-tree”, in The Fight for Santiago: The Story of the Soldier in the Cuban Campaign, from Tampa to the Surrender, New York, N.Y.: Doubleday & McClure Co., →OCLC, page 283

   We are taught the importance of hygiene of the mouth, of the body, and of the hair, but little concerning the nose, which is the "rubber-necker" which is expected to discover any laxity of cleanliness of other parts of the body or the air around us.

   1899 November 3, W. Cheatham, “Hygiene of the Nose”, in H. A. Cottell, M. F. Coomes, editors, The American Practitioner and News, volume XXVIII, number 12, Louisville, Ky.: John P. Morton & Company, published 15 December 1899, →OCLC, page 441