photobomb
/ˈfəʊtəʊˌbɒm/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.07 in modern English
20
Scrabble Score
9
Letters
3
Syllables
6
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
An act of photobombing.
noun
A photo containing someone or something that is photobombing.
Example Sentences
- "Edmonton Eskimos fans taunt a Calgary Stampeders mascot who photobombed their group photo. [image caption]"
- "Modern Family's Eric Stonestreet snuck into a few snapshots too, photobombing some of the other celebs and making funny faces."
- "Or you could just grab a beer from a side street cafe and photobomb the fountain pictures of unsuspecting tourists."
- "His^([sic]) person who uploaded the video, who appears to be Ellis' father, wrote in his description that the photobomb was not the only surprise welcome they staged that day."
- "Twitter was also filled with comments about the Queen photobomb."
- "Athletes are celebrated just for competing. Russian gymnast Anna Pavlova, who recorded an imperfect 0.00 for one of her vault attempts, could try to land a photobomb of herself mugging in the background of all those photos that will be taken of Phelps lugging around his gold."
Etymology
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *bʰeh₂- Proto-Indo-European *-os Proto-Indo-European *bʰéh₂os Proto-Hellenic *pʰáwos Ancient Greek φᾰ́ος (phắos) Ancient Greek φῶς (phôs) Ancient Greek φωτο- (phōto-)der. English photo- Proto-Indo-European *gerbʰ- Proto-Hellenic *grə́pʰō Ancient Greek γράφω (gráphō) Ancient Greek -γρᾰ́φος (-grắphos)der. English -graph English photographclip. English photo Pre-Greekbor. Ancient Greek βόμβος (bómbos)bor. Latin bombusder. Italian bombabor. French bombebor. English bomb English photobomb From photo + bomb.