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photo-op

photo-op is the alternative spelling of photo op.

Meaning of photo op

Noun

photo op (plural photo ops)

  1. (informal) Clipped compound of photo opportunity.
    • Senator Ben Sasse of Nebraska on Tuesday declared himself “against clearing out a peaceful protest for a photo op that treats the Word of God as a political prop.”2020 June 2, Matt Flegenheimer, “What Democracy Scholars Thought of Trump’s Bible Photo Op”, in New York Times

Forms of photo-op

pluralphoto-ops

Questions about photo-op

What is photo-op the alternative spelling of?
Photo-op is the alternative spelling of photo op.

Words near photo-op in the dictionary

  1. photo-essays
  2. photo-matched
  3. photo-offset
  4. photo-offsets
  5. photo-offsetting
  6. photo-op
  7. photo-oxidation
  8. photo-portrait
  9. photo-portraits
  10. photo-realism
  11. photo-romance

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Adapted from Wiktionary: photo-op (page history and authors); photo op (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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