upskirting

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English

Etymology

From upskirt +‎ -ing.

Noun

upskirting (uncountable)

  1. The covert, voyeuristic photographing of a woman's underwear up her skirt.
    • 2018, The Independent, Upskirting to be made criminal offense with two-year prison sentence under proposed law
      The new law would bring the punishment for upskirting in line with existing voyeurism offenses
    • 2004, Clay Calvert, Voyeur Nation: Media, Privacy, and Peering in Modern Culture, page 201:
      In addition to web sites that display the "public" voyeurism of upskirting, other sexual voyeurism sites show pictures of women as they shower at home […]
    • 2007 June 13, Virginia Heffernan, “Doing the People’s Business, in All Its Somnolent Glory”, in New York Times‎:
      To someone who is used to running the show, there’s something much scarier about that than upskirting, even.
    • 2012, Senator Bill Diamond, The Evil and the Innocent, page 117:
      The same upskirting technique mentioned above is used on children, only the preferred locations for seeking out victims are different. The prime locations for upskirting children are playgrounds where there are an abundance of swings, slides and jungle gyms that provide the ideal opportunity to film the preferred targets.

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