Meaning & use
Paps
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Informal British term for paparazzi photographers, collectively.
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The actress ducked into a cab to avoid the paps waiting outside the restaurant.
Photos taken by the paps ended up on every tabloid front page the next morning.
A note on using this word
"Paps" is a clipped, informal British form of "paparazzi," common in tabloid journalism; the same word also has an older, unrelated archaic sense meaning nipples or breasts.
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2. noun
Archaic term for the nipples or breasts.
The old translation of the text refers to the child at its mother's paps.
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