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upskirt en · ADJ

From up + skirt. First attested in 1997. As a verb, in 2008.

(not-comparable) Designating a voyeuristic image of the view up a woman's skirt.
- Yet while orthodox voyeurism exists online, most commercial ‘upskirt’ cam sites primarily draw on footage from paid sex workers. 2008, Camgirls: Celebrity and Community in the Age of Social Networks, page 45:
- Under this general principle, victims of upskirt voyeurism that takes place in a public location such as a park or shopping mall would be left remediless under the privacy theory called intrusion into seclusion. 2004, Clay Calvert, Voyeur Nation, page 202:

From up + skirt. First attested in 1997. As a verb, in 2008.

An image of this kind.
- The Internet is replete with photos of Britney with a flabby belly and shorn head, Britney making out drunk in clubs, “upskirts“ of Britney's shaved genitalia. 2008, Carmine Sarracino, Kevin M Scott, The Porning of America, page 212:
- For more serious problems caused by the cellphone, we may need new laws — as in the case of upskirts. 2006, Anandam P Kavoori, Noah Arceneaux, The Cell Phone Reader, page 16:
The area inside a skirt, as viewed from below and while being worn.
- Her upskirt is very frilly.

Spelling	Features	Labels	Source
upskirts	Number=Plur		lexicographic

From up + skirt. First attested in 1997. As a verb, in 2008.

(transitive) To take a voyeuristic photograph up the skirt of (a woman), especially surreptitiously.
- Following an incident where a man used a gym bag to upskirt several dozen women in crowded stores, the California legislature amended existing laws to focus on the individual violations acts rather than the location. 2007, William G Staples, The Encyclopedia of Privacy, page 525:

Spelling	Features	Source
upskirting	Tense=Pres, VerbForm=Part	lexicographic
upskirts	Number=Sing, Person=3, Tense=Pres	lexicographic
upskirted	Tense=Past, VerbForm=Part	lexicographic
upskirted	Tense=Past	lexicographic