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kinnear
 v.— «I know, I’ll take my camera out of my purse and just sort of hang my hand down and look all casual and not even look at him and take his picture in SECRET.…So I Kinneared Julia in her car.…By this time I had begun to think that this Kinnearing was rather an art form, and that I was getting quite good at taking pictures without looking.» —“I was Kinnearing” by Stephanie Pearl-McPhee Yarn Harlot (Canada) Aug. 2, 2007. (source: Double-Tongued Dictionary)

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