zapruder
/zəˈpɹuːdə(ɹ)/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.99 in modern English
20
Scrabble Score
8
Letters
3
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "Zaprudered into surreal dimensions of purest speculation, ghost-narratives have emerged and taken on shadowy but determined lives of their own, but Cayce is familiar with them all, and steers clear."
- ""[…] In a sense, we've all been 'Zaprudered,'" he said. "The film was so graphic, disturbing, mesmerizing, that it became more of our perspective on the assassination than even the perspective of the assassin, which should never have happened.""
- "He mulls whether to try changing history — removing that ugly watershed moment from American history, de-Zaprudering us all in the process — or to stand back. It’s rich stuff, psychologically."
- "Lifes explanation fit so neatly with the account that Connally broadcast nationwide from his Dallas hospital bed that even the FBI was promptly "Zaprudered'"—so mesmerized by the footage that it lost perspective. […] No one realized that the commission, despite its crucial revision of the FBI's analysis, had also been Zaprudered. […] The final twist to this saga is that once Zapruder's film is put in its proper context—he recorded an assassination that had started, not one in full—the footage provides some of the most powerful evidence against being Zaprudered. The film is mesmerizing and may deceive, but ultimately it does not lie."
- "Ah, well; at least 'shippers can stop Zaprudering old episodes to figure out whether Logan and Veronica have done it."
- "Perhaps they had a fleet of bilingual fact-checkers on the case, carefully Zaprudering the Chávez video to determine what exactly was said."
Etymology
Named after Abraham Zapruder, who shot the footage of the 1963 assassination of the President of the United States John F. Kennedy known as the Zapruder film.