photo op

noun

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Featuring a festive food and drink menu, multiple photo ops, featured events, and more. Gege Reed, The Courier-Journal, 25 Nov. 2024 State of play: Here are a dozen of our favorite things to do this time of year, including Santa photo ops, Christmas tree lightings, holiday performances, craft markets and Hanukkah celebrations. Melissa Santos, Axios, 21 Nov. 2024 The latter is a 50-mile-long scenic drive that runs between West Glacier and St. Mary, with plenty of photo ops along the way. Lydia Mansel, Travel + Leisure, 10 Oct. 2024 The resulting photo op may go down in history with Michael Dukakis riding around in a tank in an ill-fitting helmet, or Calvin Coolidge uncomfortably sporting a Native American headdress. Susan B. Glasser, The New Yorker, 31 Oct. 2024 See all Example Sentences for photo op 

Word History

First Known Use

1981, in the meaning defined above

Time Traveler
The first known use of photo op was in 1981

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“Photo op.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/photo%20op. Accessed 1 Dec. 2024.

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