upskirtadj.n.
/ˈʌpskəːt/, U.S. /ˈəpˌskərt/ A. adj.
Designating or relating to a photograph or video that has been taken from an angle so as to look up a woman's skirt or dress, typically surreptitiously in a public place for the purpose of sexual gratification.Used as a computer filename in quot. 19941, making the part of speech difficult to determine.
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society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > photography > a photograph > [adjective] > photograph by style or subject
vignetted1867
nude1869
candid1929
pin-up1941
upskirt1994
1994 Up-the-skirt in alt.pantyhose (Usenet newsgroup) 6 Sept. I think the file you have in mind is a picture I took..called upskirt.gif.]
1994 alt.sex.voyeurism (Usenet newsgroup) 17 Nov. (title of posting) Upskirt vidoe [sic] techniques.
1996 ABC News (transcript of TV programme) (Nexis) 6 Dec. New technology like miniature cameras now makes voyeurs even more of a threat... This video is called the Manhattan Upskirt Sniper.
2002 K. Hiner Mowin' Heavenly Lawn x. 247 Perverts pretend the Constitution was drawn up so they could hide under drainage grates and take upskirt photos.
2008 Times of India 29 July 18/4 (heading) ‘Upskirt’ Australian teacher walks free.
2016 E. Lederman Infocrime 81 In an upskirt case in a department store, one court ruled that the area under the skirt..is a ‘place where a reasonable person has an expectation of privacy.’
B. n.
An upskirt photograph or video.
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society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > photography > a photograph > [noun] > photograph by style or subject
high key1849
carte1861
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wedding group1861
vignette1862
studio portrait1869
press photograph1873
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war picture1883
mug1887
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visite1891
fuzz-type1893
stickyback1903
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action picture1904
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passport photo1919
mosaic1920
press photo1923
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action shot1927
passport photograph1927
profile shot1928
smudgea1931
glossy1931
photomontage1931
photomural1931
head shot1936
pin-up1943
mug shot1950
wedding photograph1956
wedding photo1966
full-frontal1970
photofit1970
split beaver1972
upskirt1994
selfie2002
1994 alt.pantyhose (Usenet newsgroup) 2 Nov. (title of posting) UpSkirts Great!!
1998 Washington Post (Nexis) 7 June b1 ‘Mall upskirts can be a pain to get!’ someone identified only as ‘Willie’ recently wrote on the Internet.
2007 W. Zink Ohio River Dialogues ii. 199 I used to look at these porn sites... I liked the upskirts.
2013 MIT Technol. Rev. 116 64/2 Inevitably, r/jailbait and r/creepshot attracted wide opprobrium (little wonder: a popular shot was the ‘upskirt’).
2015 J. Lancaster I regret Nothing xiii. 141 I've lived forty-six years without ever being the subject of a single compromising shot, not a nip-slip or an upskirt.
This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, June 2018; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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