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spycam

noun

Etymology

From spy + cam.

  1. derived from *(s)kambo-✻
  2. derived from *kambos✻
  3. derived from Granta
  4. compounded as spycam — “spy + cam”

Definitions

  1. A camera, especially a webcam, used for covert surveillance.

    • TV news executives think twice now before authorizing these spycam stories...
    • Transmitting images with a spycam requires a lot of power, and the small size of the cameras means their batteries have a short lifespan.
    • If they were so curious, they could've just snuck in a spycam.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for spycam. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

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