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means Freelance photographers who hound celebrities for candid, often invasive, shots that sell big to tabloids and magazines.

from Born from Italian cinema: in Federico Fellini's 1960 film 'La Dolce Vita,' a tabloid photographer character is named Paparazzo. Fellini reportedly borrowed the surname from a hotel-keeper in a travel book, or possibly from a dialect word suggesting a buzzing, pestering insect — accounts of the exact source vary. Whatever its roots, the name stuck so well that it became the generic plural 'paparazzi,' forever tagging the photographers who swarm like the very insect the name evokes.