paparazzo
/ˌpapəˈratsəʊ
/noun (plural paparazzi /ˌpapəˈratsi/) (usually paparazzi)
A freelance photographer who pursues celebrities to get photographs of them: she inclined her head graciously, permitting the paparazzi to photograph her...
- He is uncomfortable with the way soap stars can be photographed by the paparazzi at their worst.
- It's well-known among the paparazzi that celebrities do not like to be photographed eating.
- It surely does constitute some worry, when paparazzi photographers are trying to drive and take photos at the same time.
Origin
1960s: from Italian, from the name of a character in Fellini's film La Dolce Vita (1960).
Rhymes
- transparency
- transparent
- transparently
- transparentness
- transperson
- transpersonal
- transphobia
- transphobic
- transpicuous
- transpierce
- transpirable
- transpiration
- transpiration stream
- transpire
- transplant
- transplantable
- transplantation
- transplanter
- transponder
- transpontine
- transport
- transportability
- transportable
- transportation
- transport cafe