headshots

Noun

headshot (plural headshots)

1. A portrait for branding or social media.
   • I went home, I changed, I went to Walgreens and printed out a headshot of me and signed it ‘from your favorite local news reporter,’ and I sat in the parking lot for four hours until she said, ‘Hey, your passes to go backstage are at will-call’.2023 November 6, Chris Willman, quoting Bryan West, “Gannett’s Taylor Swift Reporter, Revealed: Meet Bryan West, the First Full-Time Swiftie Journalist”, in Variety, archived from the original on 27...
2. A gunshot to the head.
   • Smelling victory amongst the gunpowder Graeme started shooting off his mouth. “True Counter-Strikers like me don’t even count kills unless they’re headshots or a knife in the back of the nut…”2004 April, Computer and Video Games, number 271, page 24
3. A one-page, double-sided resume of an actor, consisting of the actor's photograph (usually of the head and shoulders) on one side and their curriculum vitae on the other.

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