rubbering

Noun

 * 1) rubbernecking
 * 2) eavesdropping on a telephone conversation
 * 3) * 2003, Kline, R. Resisting Consumer Technology in Rural America: The Telephone and Electrification. In N. Oudshoorn & T. Pinch (Eds.), How Users Matter: The Co-Construction of Users and Technology (pp. 51–66). MIT Press., p. 54
 * In 1907, a North Dakota newspaper described the party-line culture of eavesdropping, or rubbering as it was also called at the time, as follows: Usually when a country subscriber rings anyone up several of his neighbors immediately butt in—not to talk—just listen...