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creepshots

creepshots is the plural 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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Questions about creepshots

What is creepshots the plural of?
Creepshots is the plural of creepshot.

Words near creepshots in the dictionary

  1. creeps on
  2. creeps out
  3. creeps up
  4. creeps up on
  5. creepshot
  6. creepshots
  7. creepshotted
  8. creepshotter
  9. creepshotters
  10. creepshotting
  11. creepsome

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