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Definition of paparazzo noun from the Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary

paparazzo

noun
 
/ˌpæpəˈrætsəʊ/
 
/ˌpɑːpəˈrɑːtsəʊ/
(also pap
 
/pæp/
 
/pæp/
)
(plural paparazzi
 
/ˌpæpəˈrætsi/
 
/ˌpɑːpəˈrɑːtsi/
)
[usually plural]
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  1. a photographer who follows famous people around in order to get interesting photographs of them to sell to a newspaperTopics TV, radio and newsc1
    Word Origin1960s: from Italian, from the name of a character in the Italian director Fellini's film La Dolce Vita (1960).
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