pap

pap
 v.— «“The paps,” as the freelance and tabloid snappers are known, are always manoeuvring for the embarrassing disclosure, just as Bennett’s dogging of the mounted monarch was in the hope of photographing her falling off.» —“Indecent Exposure” by Cal McCrystal Sunday Age (Melbourne, Australia) Sept. 25, 1994. (source: Double-Tongued Dictionary)

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