creepshot
/ˈkɹiːpʃɒt/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.21 in modern English
16
Scrabble Score
9
Letters
1
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
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
Any photograph of a person taken without having acquired permission.
Example Sentences
- ""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 rage and entitlement.""
- "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."
- "'Thais in tights, I tell you,' he sniggers, his mind doing such an obscene variation of the creepshot he's just surreptitiously taken on his cell phone that I want to gag."
- "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."
Etymology
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *grewbʰ-der. Proto-Germanic *kreupaną Proto-West Germanic *kreupan Old English crēopan Middle English crepen English creep Proto-Indo-European *(s)kewd-der. Proto-Germanic *skutą Old English sċot Old English ġesċot Middle English schot English shot English creepshot From creep + shot.