creepshot en · NOUN
Pronunciation
- /ˈkɹiːpʃɒt/
- (Southern-England) audio
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.
Meanings
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A surreptitiously taken photograph of a person (usually a woman) focusing on sexualized areas of the body such as the breasts, groin, or buttocks.
'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.
2015, Amrita Tripathi, The Sibius Knot, Fourth Estate, →ISBN:"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."
2012 September 22, Kira Cochrane, “Creepshots and revenge porn: how paparazzi culture affects women”, in The Guardian: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.
2015, Sarah Hepola, Blackout: Remembering the Things I Drank to Forget, Grand Central Publishing, →ISBN:
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(broadly) Any photograph of a person taken without having acquired permission.
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.
2018 July 14, Natasha Lomas, “Reminder: Other people’s lives are not fodder for your feeds”, in TechCrunch:
Forms
| Spelling | Features | Labels | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| creepshots | Number=Plur | lexicographic | |
| creep shot | alternative | lexicographic |