creepshot
/ˈkɹiːpʃɒt/
creepshot noun: a surreptitiously taken photograph of a person (usually a woman) focusing on sexualized areas of the body such as the breasts, groin, or buttocks.
Noun
creepshot (plural creepshots)
- 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
- The guy on the subway who took a creepshot of my cleavage of his phone, making nausea spill over my insides. That was rape culture.2015, Sarah Hepola, Blackout: Remembering the Things I Drank to Forget, Grand Central Publishing, →ISBN
- 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
Verb
creepshot (third-person singular simple present creepshots, present participle creepshotting, simple past and past participle creepshotted)
- To take a creepshot of (an individual).
Forms of creepshot
| Noun | |
|---|---|
| plural | creepshots |
| alternative form | creep shot |
| Verb | |
| third-person singular present | creepshots |
| present participle | creepshotting |
| past participle | creepshotted |
| past | creepshotted |
Origin of creepshot
From creep + shot.
Words formed from creepshot
Questions about creepshot
- What does creepshot mean?
- Creepshot means 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 part of speech is creepshot?
- Creepshot can be a noun or a verb.
- How do you pronounce creepshot?
- Creepshot is pronounced /ˈkɹiːpʃɒt/.
- What is the plural of creepshot?
- The plural of creepshot is creepshots.
Words near creepshot in the dictionary
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