upskirting
upskirting noun: the covert, voyeuristic photographing of a woman's underwear up her skirt.
Noun
upskirting (uncountable)
- The covert, voyeuristic photographing of a woman's underwear up her skirt.
- The new law would bring the punishment for upskirting in line with existing voyeurism offenses2018, The Independent, Upskirting to be made criminal offense with two-year prison sentence under proposed law
- In addition to web sites that display the "public" voyeurism of upskirting, other sexual voyeurism sites show pictures of women as they shower at home […]2004, Clay Calvert, Voyeur Nation: Media, Privacy, and Peering in Modern Culture, page 201
Examples of upskirting in a sentence
- To someone who is used to running the show, there’s something much scarier about that than upskirting, even.2007 June 13, Virginia Heffernan, “Doing the People’s Business, in All Its Somnolent Glory”, in New York Times:
- The same upskirting technique mentioned above is used on children, only the preferred locations for seeking out victims are different.2012, Senator Bill Diamond, The Evil and the Innocent, page 117:
Origin of upskirting
From upskirt + -ing.
Questions about upskirting
- What does upskirting mean?
- Upskirting means the covert, voyeuristic photographing of a woman's underwear up her skirt.
- How do you use upskirting in a sentence?
- To someone who is used to running the show, there’s something much scarier about that than upskirting, even.
- What part of speech is upskirting?
- Upskirting is a noun.
Words near upskirting in the dictionary
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