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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun A person who gets pleasure, especially sexual pleasure, from secretly watching others; a voyeur.

Etymologies

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

[After the legendary Peeping Tom, of Coventry, England, who was the only person to see the naked Lady Godiva.]

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