photo-bomb

[Ben Zimmer]

On Mon, Apr 30, 2012 at 12:37 PM, Jonathan Lighter wrote:
>
> A CNN anchor explains that as she was having her picture taken with Goldie
> Hawn at the White House Correspondents Dinner, they were "photo-bombed" by
> some important star whose name I didn't catch because I've never heard of
> him.
>
> He intruded himself suddenly and prominently into the picture.

Check out the Winter 2011 installment of "Among the New Words" in
AmSp, devoted to Internet memes. "Photobomb" is covered on pp. 473-4.

http://americanspeech.dukejournals.org/content/86/4/454.full.pdf+html

(I'm starting to feel like that guy who always reminds us to check HDAS.)

--bgz

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