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candid camera

noun

Etymology

Although used as its name, the term predates the long-running American television program Candid Camera (first broadcast in 1948).

Definitions

  1. A camera which is concealed or unobtrusive, used to obtain candid photographs of people…

    A camera which is concealed or unobtrusive, used to obtain candid photographs of people who usually are unaware; the practice of taking such photos.

    • A candid camera’s role in higher education, with photographs of co-eds in the nude, commanded public interest today.
    • Miss Rand . . . is wanted in criminal court to face charges of biting a theater customer who tried to take her picture with a candid camera.
    • Dorothy Netherton, who with Grace Valentine went to Europe this summer, has more than 400 enlarged candid-camera pictures of scenes taken during the tour.

  2. A humorous television show that uses hidden candid cameras to make jokes to people.

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA