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  • noun a viewer who enjoys seeing the sex acts or sex organs of others

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Examples

  • ESPN reporter Erin Andrews has been the target of death threats, stalking, and even an obsessed Peeping Tom who released secret videotapes of the blonde bombshell in the buff — but these days Andrews is geting some of her harshest criticism from other women.

    Elisabeth Hasselbeck Gives Birth To Son Isaiah Timothy 2010

  • So when you say Peeping Tom, she had no idea this little girl, that she ` s being videotaped, the 12-year - old?

    CNN Transcript Sep 27, 2007 2007

  • Fortunately not all seven hundred and twenty hours a day of camera activity were available to the police, the vast bulk of it having been discarded on a daily basis by the Peeping Tom editors.

    Dead Famous Elton, Ben 2001

  • The Peeping Tom psychologist stopped trawling the footage for flirtatious body language and started searching for the murderous variety.

    Dead Famous Elton, Ben 2001

  • 'She's just got so strange,' Jazz said, when Peeping Tom asked him why he'd nominated her.

    Dead Famous Elton, Ben 2001

  • We had no idea that the story of Lady Godiva and Peeping Tom was so ancient, but we found it dated back to the time of Leofric, Earl of

    From John O'Groats to Land's End Robert Naylor

  • The building in which he appeared was doing duty as a public-house, so we went in and saw the landlord, to whom we explained the nature of our visit and journey, and he kindly conducted us up the steps to the small room at the top of the house where Peeping Tom was to be seen.

    From John O'Groats to Land's End Robert Naylor

  • All these tales include the Peeping Tom incident; and it appears, indeed, so obvious a corollary to the central thought of Lady Godiva's adventure that it is hardly likely to have required centuries for its evolution.

    The Science of Fairy Tales An Inquiry into Fairy Mythology Edwin Sidney Hartland 1887

  • Fantomas, Tomahawk, Peeping Tom and a myriad of other projects over the past two-plus decades.

    ARTISTdirect.com 2010

  • Belle de Jour, Peeping Tom, Almodóvar's own works, and others -- and is explicitly about moving images 'power to reveal or conceal the truth.

    Baltimore City Paper 2010

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