face swap

See also: face-swap and faceswap

English

Alternative forms

• faceswap

Noun

face swap (plural face swaps)

1. An instance of swapping faces in an image or video.
   • 2017, Joe Berkowitz, Away with Words: An Irreverent Tour Through the World of Pun Competitions, New York, N.Y.: Harper Perennial, →ISBN, page 224:

     Ariel, Nikolai, and Ally are doing Snapchat face swaps, while Max and I text with Jerzy and Jordan, who are restless at the Best Western, wanting to meet up.

   • 2017, Tamsin Winter, Being Miss Nobody, London: Usborne Publishing Ltd., →ISBN, pages 307–308:

     I did write the blog about Maisy, but I definitely didn’t do any of the really horrible things like nasty face swaps or putting horrible comments on her selfies or sending her online messages during lessons.

   • 2022 February 4, YY, “Identifying deepfake videos”, in Science, volume 375, number 6580, American Association for the Advancement of Science, page 511:

     Deepfake videos that have been digitally manipulated, from face swaps to filters, may look authentic to the untrained eye.

Related terms

• face-swap (verb)

References

• “face swap”, in ComputerLanguage.com, The Computer Language Company Inc., 1981–present.
• “face swap”, in Dictionary.com Unabridged, Dictionary.com, LLC, 1995–present.
• “face swap”, in Oxford Languages, Oxford University Press, via Google Dictionary, 2017 (entry added).