creepshot

plural creepshots · alternative creep shot

1. A surreptitiously taken photograph of a person (usually a woman) focusing on sexualized areas of the body such as the breasts, groin, or buttocks.

   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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   "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

   '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

2. broadlyAny 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

present singular third person creepshots · participle present creepshotting · participle past creepshotted · past creepshotted · alternative creep shot

1. transitiveTo take a creepshot of (an individual).