Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A freelance photographer who doggedly pursues celebrities to take candid pictures for sale to magazines and newspapers.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A free-lance photographer that specializes in following and photographing celebrities such as movie stars, especially to obtain candid photographs in private situations.
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- noun A
freelance photographer who sellsphotographs ofcelebrities to themedia , especially one whopursues celebrities and attempts to obtaincandid photographs.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a freelance photographer who pursues celebrities trying to take candid photographs of them to sell to newspapers or magazines
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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Both documentaries use the same footage from Fellini's La Dolce Vita to explain the origin of the term paparazzo (it's a character's name).
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The mafia infiltration and grubby money-laundering is a far cry from the hedonistic era portrayed in Fellini's 1960 classic, which starred the Italian actor Marcello Mastroianni as a society reporter and gave the world the word 'paparazzo'.
Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph Nick Squires 2011
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Galella has never shied away from being called a paparazzo, derived from the Italian word for mosquito.
Screen News 2008
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Galella has never shied away from being called a paparazzo, derived from the Italian word for mosquito.
Screen News 2008
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Galella has never shied away from being called a paparazzo, derived from the Italian word for mosquito.
News24 2008
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You may not know this but the word paparazzo is actually a name.
Snarklings Wrestle the Snarkomter, bout 46 Miss Snark 2005
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Galella, 79, whose life is examined in Leon Gast's "Smash His Camera", is old enough to have been working when the term "paparazzo" -- the sound in Italian made by a buzzing mosquito
Yahoo! News: Latest news headlines News Headlines | Top Stories 2010
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Galella, 79, whose life is examined in Leon Gast's "Smash His Camera", is old enough to have been working when the term "paparazzo" -- the sound in Italian made by a buzzing mosquito
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Galella, 79, whose life is examined in Leon Gast's "Smash His Camera", is old enough to have been working when the term "paparazzo" -- the sound in Italian made by a buzzing mosquito -- was coined to name a celebrity-chasing photographer character in the 1960 film "La Dolce Vita".
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And Wednesday, October 1st - here ` s the kicker - the 911 caller is identified as a paparazzo named Jill Ishkanian.
oroboros commented on the word paparazzo
Singular of the we-love-to-hate-'em 'paparazzi'.
January 5, 2007