/ ˌpæpəˈrætsəʊ; NAmE -ˈrætsoʊ/ noun
( pl. pap·ar·azzi / -tsi; NAmE /) [ usually pl. ] a photographer who follows famous people around in order to get interesting photographs of them to sell to a newspaper
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WORD ORIGIN
1960s: from Italian , from the name of a character in Fellini's film La Dolce Vita (1960).