Noun
a freelance photographer who pursues celebrities trying to take candid photographs of them to sell to newspapers or magazines
Source: WordNetI half-punched a paparazzo once. I've hit a few people. Sienna Miller
Once I was walking from The Mercer in New York - because otherwise I don't walk anywhere - and this woman paparazzo who was following me fell over a fire hydrant and her whole tooth went through her lip. I leant over her, saying, 'Are you all right?' and she was still taking pictures. Kate Moss
I remember that even my first impression of Italian cinema was pictures by paparazzi because my mom was reading all of these trash magazines with paparazzo pictures. Wim Wenders
Ennio Flaiano, the film's co-screenwriter and creator of Paparazzo, explained that he took the name from Signor Paparazzo, a character in George Gissing 's novel By the Ionian Sea (1901). Source: Internet
At one point, Hogan says he is in trouble for fighting a TMZ paparazzo that was trailing the couple. Source: Internet
La Dolce Vita contributed the term paparazzi to the English language, derived from Paparazzo, the photographer friend of journalist Marcello Rubini ( Marcello Mastroianni ). Source: Internet