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creep shot

creep shot is the alternative form of creepshot.

Meaning of creepshot

Noun

creepshot (plural creepshots)

  1. A surreptitiously taken photograph of a person (usually a woman) focusing on sexualized areas of the body such as the breasts, groin, or buttocks.
    • "What unites creepshots, the Middleton photographs, the revenge porn websites," says Franks, "is that they all feature the same fetishisation of non-consensual sexual activity with women who either you don't have any access to, or have been denied future access to. And it's really this product of...2012 September 22, Kira Cochrane, “Creepshots and revenge porn: how paparazzi culture affects women”, in The Guardian
  2. (broadly) Any photograph of a person taken without having acquired permission.
    • Her speculation was set against a backdrop of rearview creepshots, with a few barely there scribbles added to blot out actual facial features. Even as an entire privacy invading narrative was being spun unknowingly around them.2018 July 14, Natasha Lomas, “Reminder: Other people’s lives are not fodder for your feeds”, in TechCrunch

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Forms of creep shot

pluralcreep shots

Questions about creep shot

What is creep shot the alternative form of?
Creep shot is the alternative form of creepshot.

Words near creep shot in the dictionary

  1. creep in
  2. creep joint
  3. creep joints
  4. creep on
  5. creep out
  6. creep shot
  7. creep shots
  8. creep up
  9. creep up on
  10. creep-shame
  11. creep-shamed

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