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rubberneck<br />

v. 1 gape, stare, goggle, gawk: <strong>The</strong>y spent a weekend in New<br />

York, rubbernecking at the skyscrapers.<br />

--n. 2 tourist, sightseer, rubbernecker, US out-<strong>of</strong>-towner:<br />

Buses for the rubbernecks leave Trafalgar Square every hour or<br />

so.<br />

rubbish n. 1 refuse, waste, debris, rubble, detritus, litter, garbage,<br />

sweepings, dross, dregs, residue, leftovers, remnants, lees,<br />

scraps, fragments, leavings, residuum, junk, rejects, Chiefly US<br />

trash Slang chiefly US dreck: Private companies are now<br />

contracted to remove household rubbish weekly. 2 (stuff and)<br />

nonsense, balderdash, moonshine, gibberish, gobbledegook or<br />

gobbledygook, tommy-rot, bunkum, trash, garbage, twaddle, Colloq<br />

rot, flapdoodle, crap, hokum, codswallop, bosh, piffle, hooey,<br />

bunk, malarkey, poppycock, boloney or baloney, eyewash, hogwash,<br />

bilge-water, bull, Scots havers, Brit tosh, gammon, US a crock,<br />

horse feathers, gurry, Slang rot, Brit (a load <strong>of</strong> (old))<br />

cobblers, Taboo slang bullshit, horseshit, US a crock <strong>of</strong> shit:<br />

What she told you about how I treated her is absolute rubbish.<br />

--v. 3 criticize, attack, destroy, Colloq clobber, pan, Chiefly<br />

US trash, Slang jump on, Chiefly US and Canadian bad-mouth, jump<br />

all over: In his latest book he rubbishes the newspaper that<br />

had given his previous book a bad review.<br />

rude adj. 1 impolite, discourteous, disrespectful, ungracious,<br />

ungallant, unmannerly, ill-mannered, uncivil, bad-mannered,<br />

ungentlemanly, unladylike, ill-bred, unrefined, unpolished,<br />

uncouth, boorish, churlish, oafish, loutish, coarse,<br />

uncivilized, uncultured, unceremonious: It was rude <strong>of</strong> him not<br />

to get up when she came in, but he doesn't know any better. 2<br />

impertinent, impudent, discourteous, insulting, insolent,<br />

<strong>of</strong>fensive, saucy, bold, disrespectful, uncivil, flippant,<br />

brusque, curt, gruff, tactless, outrageous, Colloq fresh: I<br />

simply asked the chambermaid to make up my room early and she<br />

responded with a rude remark. 3 naughty, unrefined, ribald,<br />

bawdy, indecent, indelicate, vulgar, obscene, dirty, filthy,<br />

lubricious or lubricous, lewd, gross, smutty, taboo,<br />

pornographic: Chris has an extensive collection <strong>of</strong> rude

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