face-swap

See also: face swap and faceswap

English

Verb

face-swap (third-person singular simple present face-swaps, present participle face-swapping, simple past and past participle face-swapped)

1. To swap the face (of someone) in an image or video.
   • 2017 April 19–25, “Music”, in City Pages, Minneapolis, Minn.: Star Tribune Media Company, LLC, →ISSN, page 69:

     Whether he’s face-swapping with statues at Mia or knocking back whiskey with his pink-shirted digital girlfriend, Mailman immerses himself in the low-tech app to create a world that’s familiar while still being as wacky as conceivable.

   • 2018, Andy Marino, Autonomous, New York, N.Y.: Freeform Books, Disney Book Group, →ISBN, page 340:

     Somebody had face-swapped her with a rotting corpse. Underneath that picture was another, in which her eyes had been replaced with lips. The thread continued with more Photoshop alterations and crude graffiti.

   • 2018 April, Larry Zimmerman, “Cheap and Easily Manipulated Video”, in The Journal of the Kansas Bar Association‎^[1], Topeka, Kan.: Kansas Bar Association, →ISSN, page 21:

     Ordinary people have already been face-swapped into videos for humorous or prank purposes and there is no reason to believe that abusers, harassers, stalkers, and blackmailers will not soon be face-swapping victims into compromising video as part of their arsenal.

Related terms

• face swap (noun)

References

• “face-swap”, in Oxford Languages, Oxford University Press, via Google Dictionary, 2017 (entry added).