'gram

A form of Instagram — A user's profile or account on this service.

Meanings

'gram1

proper noun

alternative 'Gram · alternative gram · alternative Gram

  1. abbreviationclippingslangClipping of Instagram.

    Don't do it for the 'gram: Social media and traveling.

    2019, A.M. Bristow, Traveling More & Traveling Better: A GnomeTrotting Guide, →ISBN
    2 more examples

    Breakfast is really important on Instagram, friends. The avocado’s epoch of fame basically began on the ’gram, and everything I know about eggs originated at the age of 20, when I first downloaded the app.

    2017 December 15, Ruby Lott-Lavigna, “I Spent a Day Eating at the Most Instagrammable Restaurants of 2017”, in VICE

    The ambience was overrated at the party / I want to run away before it's even started / I look at my feet, then I look for the door (Oh my God) / Can't find my friends, […] / But I don't wanna follow you on the 'gram / I don't wanna listen to your band / I don't know why I haven't left yet / Don't want none of this

    2022, Teasdale Rhian Louise, “Angelica”, in Wet Leg, performed by Wet Leg, Domino, →OCLC
noun'gram (plural 'grams)

plural 'grams · alternative 'Gram · alternative gram · alternative Gram

  1. abbreviationclippingslangClipping of Instagram.
verb'gram (third-person singular simple present 'grams, present participle 'gramming, simple past and past participle 'grammed)

present singular third person 'grams · participle present 'gramming · participle past 'grammed · past 'grammed · alternative 'Gram · alternative gram · alternative Gram

  1. abbreviationclippingslangClipping of Instagram.

    With restaurants closed and travel discouraged, we asked what he’s ‘gramming, how he’s getting by, and how influencers will survive.

    2020 April 2, Jessica Sidman, “Food Influencers Are Still Gramming, Pandemic or Not”, in Washingtonian
    1 more example

    Twitter, Snapchat, and 'gramming aren't the only things to set today's top names apart from the supermodels of decades past: An enterprising attitude toward the future isn't an exception but the norm.

    2015 March 30, Leah Melby Clinton, “Gigi Hadid on Life After Modeling: "It's Not Just OK Anymore to Model Until You're 25 and Then Stop and Be a Housewife"”, in Glamour

'Gram2

noun'Gram (plural 'Grams)

plural 'Grams

  1. abbreviationclippingcolloquialClipping of Instagram.

Synonyms & antonyms

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Cite this entry
APA

'gram. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/'gram

MLA

“'gram.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/'gram. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “'gram,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/'gram.

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