kodak

plural kodaks

1. datedA camera: a device for taking still photographs.

   An American girl snapped her Kodak.

   2011, Simon Sebag Montefiore, Jerusalem: The Biography – A History of the Middle East, page 466

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   To diagnose / Our modest pose / The Kodaks do their best

   1893, W. S. Gilbert (lyrics), Utopia, Limited

   Charmian and Martin brought up the rear, armed with kodaks. We dived under the avocado trees […] and came on a spot that satisfied Martin's photographic eye.

   1911 June, Jack London, chapter 17, in The Cruise of the Snark, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company, →OCLC

2. datedA still photograph.

   You may consult the kodaks taken at my arrest if you are curious, Archivist.

   2004, David Mitchell, Cloud Atlas, London: Sceptre (Hodder and Stoughton), →ISBN, page 338

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   There were photographs everywhere: photographs framed and unframed; photographs large and photographs small, the fresh and the faded; tintypes, kodaks, “full lengths,” “cabinets,” groups—every type of photograph; […]

   1913, Booth Tarkington, The Flirt, Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, Page & Company, →OCLC, page 70

present singular third person kodaks · participle present kodaking · participle past kodaked · past kodaked

1. datedtransitiveTo photograph.

   A knot of obviously American tourists were kodaking his lodge-gates.

   1917, Rudyard Kipling, The Village That Voted the Earth Was Flat

2. datedtransitiveTo describe or characterise briefly and vividly.