phonecam

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noun

A camera built into a mobile phone.

Scrabble 17

Meanings

nounphonecam (plural phonecams)

plural phonecams

  1. A camera built into a mobile phone.

    Sending a picture taken with a phonecam as MMS may be fun on occasion, but sending thousands or millions of pictures is not the work of a casual user.

    2003, Scott B. Guthery, Mary J. Cronin, Developing MMS Applications
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    Phonecams are proliferating like mad, their tiny eyes fuzzily probing so many corners of public and private life that they have begun to alter how people communicate and recreate.

    2004, Forbes, volume 173, numbers 4-9, page 156

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