/pah'peuh raht"soh/ ; It. /pah'pah rddaht"tsaw/ , n. , pl. paparazzi /-raht"see/ ; It. /-rddaht"tsee/ .
a freelance photographer, esp. one who takes candid pictures of celebrities for publication.
[ 1965-70; La dolce vita (1959), after the name of a hotelkeeper in George Gissing's By the Ionian Sea (1901), read by Fellini in It trans. at the time of the movie's producton ]