creepshot

creepshot

English

Alternative forms

• creep shot

Etymology

creep +‎ shot

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈkɹiːpʃɒt/

Noun

creepshot (plural creepshots)

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.
   • 2012, Kira Cochrane, "Creepshots and revenge porn: how paparazzi culture affects women", The Guardian, 22 September 2012:

     "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."

   • 2015, Sarah Hepola, Blackout: Remembering the Things I Drank to Forget, Grand Central Publishing (2015), →ISBN, unnumbered page:

     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, Amrita Tripathi, The Sibius Knot, Fourth Estate (2015), →ISBN, unnumbered page:

     '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.

2. (by extension) Any photograph of a person taken without having acquired permission.
   • 2018 July 14, Natasha Lomas, "Reminder: Other people’s lives are not fodder for your feeds", TechCrunch.

     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.

Verb

creepshot (third-person singular simple present creepshots, present participle creepshotting, simple past and past participle creepshotted)

1. (transitive) to take a creepshot of