Instagram

1. InternetAn online photo- and video-sharing social networking service, originally designed to mimic old-fashioned instant cameras.

   He posted a gym reel on Instagram.

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   Megan has 53 posts and 41.7k followers on Instagram.

   According to a survey commissioned by the credit card company Barclay, 9 percent of shoppers in Britain admitted to buying clothes online for Instagram. After posting pictures of themselves wearing the item online, they return it.

   2019 September 25, Kendra Pierre-Louis, “How to Buy Clothes That Are Built to Last”, in The New York Times, archived from the original on 11 May 2025

   Carla's got a boyfriend / I spotted him on Instagram / Followed him about a bit

   2020, “Carla's got a boyfriend”, in The Night Chancers, performed by Baxter Dury

   One who is quickly causing controversy — although his 249K Instagram follower tally is a far cry from Tate’s 4.6 million before Tate was banned — is Myron Gaines, co-host of the Fresh and Fit podcast which markets itself as the No. 1 men’s podcast in the world.

   2023 June 9, John Mac Ghlionn, “The new Andrew Tate: Toxic ‘manosphere’ podcaster claims ‘all women are whores’”, in New York Post

   Synonyms: Ins, Insta, 'gram, IG

plural Instagrams

1. A user's profile or account on this service.

   Have you seen her Instagram lately?

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   She's been blowing up my Instagram!

2. A photograph or video shared on this service.

   I saw one of her Instagrams last week, but I haven't talked to her since then.

present singular third person Instagrams · participle present Instagramming · participle past Instagrammed · past Instagrammed

1. intransitiveTo use the social networking service Instagram.

   The thinking goes that if the modern audience watches TV on laptops, while Instagramming and checking emails at the same time, why would contemporary artists ignore that and insist on trapping them in a silent black box for an hour?

   2013 July 5, Lyndsey Winship, “Mårten Spångberg, the bad boy of contemporary dance”, in The Guardian

2. ambitransitiveTo post an image or video of (something) to Instagram.

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   2014 July 7, Kaitlan Collins, “Kim Kardashian Was Desperate To Leave The Hamptons So She Could Instagram”, in The Daily Caller

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   Her mother cried when she answered / Said she don't know what got inside this child's mind, she planted / A box of condoms on her dresser then she Instagrammed it.

   2012, Nas, No I.D., Patrick Adams, Gary DeCarlo, Dale Frashuer, Paul Leka, “Daughters” (track 5), in Life is Good, performed by Nas

   Preston leaves by himself under the pretense of grabbing coffee, needing to get out for a few minutes, to breathe air, to be unwatched. He Instagrams the butchered name the barista writes on his coffee cup: Pearson.

   2021, A. E. Osworth, chapter 20, in We Are Watching Eliza Bright, →ISBN

   Emily adores Paris and Instagrams the city at every turn.

   2025, Julien Thèves, "Vous aimez 'Emily in Paris,' vous aimerez la capitale française", translated and quoted by Thérèse Migraine-George, in French Gastronomy in the US

3. ambitransitiveTo digitally manipulate a photograph using filter effects.

   There he was, staring cheekily into the camera for a perfectly instagrammed photo which had been touched up to show off his muscles, raw sex appeal and wild, unkempt hair.

   2014, Reenita Malhotra Hora, Operation Mom, →ISBN

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   To illustrate, I used B-roll of photos on the iPhone that were being “Instagrammed” (Figure 8.6) with fun filters along with screen captures of Instragram's No. 1 ranking in the iTunes App Store and the Apple website touting the iPhone 4S.

   2012, Jefferson Graham, Video Nation, →ISBN, page 160

   In a world where it is de rigueur to announce your wedding on Facebook and show the world artfully Instagrammed pictures of your appendectomy, it's no surprise that the Bee has a social media presence.

   2013 May 31, Kory Stamper, “The Spelling Bee turns Twitter into our national sports bar”, in The Guardian

   The cameras were out and we were all trying to get pictures of each other, which we then spent a further half an hour trying to Instagram to make us look as good as possible

   2014, Rachael Chadwick, 60 Postcards: The inspirational story of a young woman's journey to celebrate her mother, one postcard at a time, →ISBN