rubbering

1. 1
   verb

   Present participle of rubber. Use this when describing someone gawking or staring right now.

   The kids were rubbering at the fire trucks all afternoon.

   Stop rubbering and pay attention to the road.

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2. 2
   noununcountable

   The act of stopping to stare at something, like slowing down to look at a car crash.

   Like slowing down to stare at something interesting on the side of the road.

   Traffic crawled past the wreck as drivers slowed for some rubbering.

   All that rubbering at the parade left people bumping into each other.

   Similarrubbernecking, staring, gawping

3. 3
   noununcountable

   Listening in secret to a phone call between other people.

   Like quietly listening at a door while someone talks inside.

   Party-line telephones made rubbering all too easy for nosy neighbors.

   He admitted to rubbering on his sister's call with her boyfriend.

   Similareavesdropping

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