upskirt

English

Etymology

From up +‎ skirt.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈʌpskəːt/

• Audio (Northern California):

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Adjective

upskirt (not comparable)

1. Designating a voyeuristic image of the view up a woman's skirt.
   • 2004, Clay Calvert, Voyeur Nation, page 202:

     Under this general principle, victims of upskirt voyeurism that takes place in a public location such as a park or shopping mall would be left remediless under the privacy theory called intrusion into seclusion.

   • 2008, Camgirls: Celebrity and Community in the Age of Social Networks, page 45:

     Yet while orthodox voyeurism exists online, most commercial ‘upskirt’ cam sites primarily draw on footage from paid sex workers.

Noun

upskirt (plural upskirts)

1. An image of this kind.

   Synonym: panty shot

   • 2006, Anandam P Kavoori, Noah Arceneaux, The Cell Phone Reader, page 16:

     For more serious problems caused by the cellphone, we may need new laws — as in the case of upskirts.

   • 2008, Carmine Sarracino, Kevin M Scott, The Porning of America, page 212:

     The Internet is replete with photos of Britney with a flabby belly and shorn head, Britney making out drunk in clubs, “upskirts“ of Britney's shaved genitalia.

2. The area inside a skirt, most commonly from below and while being worn.

Her upskirt is very frilly.

Verb

upskirt (third-person singular simple present upskirts, present participle upskirting, simple past and past participle upskirted)

1. (transitive) To take a voyeuristic photograph up the skirt of (a woman), especially surreptitiously.
   • 2007, William G Staples, The Encyclopedia of Privacy, page 525:

     Following an incident where a man used a gym bag to upskirt several dozen women in crowded stores, the California legislature amended existing laws to focus on the individual violations acts rather than the location.

Related terms

• upshorts

See also

• anasyrma
• downblouse