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hovercam en · NOUN

Pronunciation

  • /ˈhʌ.vɜɹ.kæm/ (General-American)
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Etymology

From hover + cam.

Meanings

  1. A mobile hovering camera.
    • Like almost everyone else in her world, Aya records everything she does with the help of a semi-sentient hovercam (a sort of floating soccer ball that's a cross between R2D2 and Weegee), using the resulting footage to boost her face rank. 2007 November 11, James Hynes, “Looks Aren't Everything”, in New York Times:

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