minicam
AmericanEtymology
Origin of minicam
1935–40; mini(ature) or mini- + cam(era) 1
Example Sentences
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On Bourbon Street in the French Quarter, a minicam crew stalks tourists, trying to find someone wearing a Broncos feed cap.
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Its enthusiasts support some 300 special attachments and have produced a shelf of books, several candid-camera tradepapers, and a name: minicam.
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Later the networks brought the minicam to the locker room.
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A TV chopper reporter dies In the gizmo-fancying world of local TV news, the helicopter rivals the minicam as the novelty of the moment.
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Public figures rarely have that aplomb: when someone abruptly turns on the light and catches them, they bunk in astonishment and guilt or reach their palms out desperately to cover the lens of the minicam.
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