paparazzo
[pah-puh-raht-soh; Italian pah-pah-raht-tsaw]
- a freelance photographer, especially one who takes candid pictures of celebrities for publication.
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Origin of paparazzo
1965–70; < Italian, from the surname of such a photographer in Federico Fellini's La dolce vita (1959), after the name of a hotelkeeper in George Gissing's By the Ionian Sea (1901), read by Fellini in It translation at the time of the movie's producton
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Paparazzo was, in fact, the name of a photographer in his film.
When the paparazzo pestered him again, asking, “So he could do without the Grammys?”
“We called him BK Boy and he gets upset,” says a New York City paparazzo who frequently stalks the couple.
The paparazzo ruffled and out a functioning camera, then threatened Madoff Mack with a lawsuit.
Shockingly the film also contains a paparazzo picture of Diana dying.
paparazzo
- a freelance photographer who specializes in candid camera shots of famous people and often invades their privacy to obtain such photographs
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Word Origin
C20: from Italian
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n.
see paparazzi.
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