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photobomb

[ foh-toh-bom ]

verb (used with object)

  1. to ruin (a photograph) by appearing in the image without the photographer’s knowledge, often in some dramatic or comical way:

    My brother photobombed what would have been a nice photo of my grandma and me.

  2. to do this to (the subject of a photograph or the photographer):

    I thought I had a great picture, but I got photobombed by a pigeon flying by.



noun

  1. a photograph that is ruined in this way.
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Other 51Թ Forms

  • t·dziԲ noun
  • t·dze noun
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51Թ History and Origins

Origin of photobomb1

First recorded in 2005–10; photo + bomb ( def )
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The speaker of the House, the man second in line to the presidency — Rep. Mike Johnson of Louisiana — had to photobomb the much-shared shot taken aboard the so-called Trump Force One airplane last weekend.

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The Arizona farmer photobombed a photograph the Cop, Convict, Comedian and Rabbi took together to celebrate their night out with the faithful.

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They encountered an immense flurry of different salps that were doing their nightly migration to the surface -- and many photobombing sharks, squids and crustaceans, Sutherland noted.

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Two of our galaxy’s most famous stars were recently photobombed by what appears to be a celestial question mark.

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The King County Courthouse’s ungainly profile photobombed countless Seattle cityscape portraits for four decades.

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