selfie stick

noun

An extendable monopod arm onto which a smartphone or camera can be mounted in order to take wide-angle photographs of oneself.

Meanings

nounselfie stick (plural selfie sticks)

plural selfie sticks

  1. communicationsAn extendable monopod arm onto which a smartphone or camera can be mounted in order to take wide-angle photographs of oneself.

    For example, photography shop Artworkfoto in Funan DigitaLife Mall sells about five selfie sticks every day.

    2014 March 30, Benson Ang, “Selfie sticks are hot”, in The Sunday Times, Singapore, page L4
    2 more examples

    We snapped another selfie (one of the guys, Royston out of our newly acquired Singapore Zopim office, introduced the Exchange to the selfie stick, and that photo is now legendary.)

    2014, Mikkel Svane, Startupland: How Three Guys Risked Everything to Turn an Idea into a Global Business, John Wiley & Sons (2014), pages 176-177, published 8 December

    The needs of selfie takers feed into new product development such as a selfie stick that allows the ul-jang angle, a mirrorless DSLR camera with a 180-degree tilting LCD window, a motion-detecting shutter, and a camera with wireless internet for transferring images.

    2015 January, Yoo Jin Kwon, Kyoung-Nan Kwon, “Consuming the Objectified Self: The Quest for Authentic Self”, in Asian Social Science, page 310

Translations

Bulgarian селфи стик
  • селфи стик (selfi stik)extendable arm to hold a camera
Chinese Cantonese 自拍神器, 自拍棒
  • 自拍神器 (zi⁶ paak³ san⁴ hei³)extendable arm to hold a camera
  • 自拍棒 (zi⁶ paak³ paang⁵)extendable arm to hold a camera
  • 自拍利器 (zi⁶ paak³ lei⁶ hei³)extendable arm to hold a camera
  • 自拍棍 (zi⁶ paak³ gwan³)extendable arm to hold a camera
  • 自拍杆 (zi⁶ paak³ gon¹)extendable arm to hold a camera
Chinese Mandarin 自拍神器, 自拍棒
  • 自拍神器 (zìpāi shénqì)extendable arm to hold a camera
  • 自拍棒 (zìpāibàng)extendable arm to hold a camera
  • 自拍利器 (zìpāi lìqì)extendable arm to hold a camera
  • 自拍棍 (zìpāigùn)extendable arm to hold a camera
  • 自拍杆 (zìpāigān)extendable arm to hold a camera
Danish selfiestang
  • selfiestangextendable arm to hold a camera
Dutch selfiestick, selfiestok
  • selfiestickextendable arm to hold a camera
  • selfiestokextendable arm to hold a camera
Finnish selfiekeppi
  • selfiekeppiextendable arm to hold a camera
French perche à selfie
  • perche à selfieextendable arm to hold a camera
German Selfie-Stange, Selfie-Stab
  • Selfie-Stangeextendable arm to hold a camera
  • Selfie-Stabextendable arm to hold a camera
  • Selfiestickextendable arm to hold a camera
Hungarian szelfibot
  • szelfibotextendable arm to hold a camera
Icelandic sjálfustöng
  • sjálfustöngextendable arm to hold a camera
Indonesian tongsis (tongkat narsis), tongkat narsis
  • tongsis (tongkat narsis)extendable arm to hold a camera
  • tongkat narsisextendable arm to hold a camera
Italian asta per selfie
  • asta per selfieextendable arm to hold a camera
Japanese 自撮り棒
  • 自撮り棒 (jidoribō)extendable arm to hold a camera
Korean 셀카봉
  • 셀카봉 (selkabong)extendable arm to hold a camera
Portuguese pau de selfie, bastão de selfie
  • pau de selfieextendable arm to hold a camera
  • bastão de selfieextendable arm to hold a camera
Russian палка для селфи
  • палка для селфи (palka dlja selfi)extendable arm to hold a camera
Spanish palo para autofotos, palo para selfis
  • palo para autofotosextendable arm to hold a camera
  • palo para selfisextendable arm to hold a camera
  • palo selfiextendable arm to hold a camera
Swedish selfiepinne
  • selfiepinneextendable arm to hold a camera
Thai ไม้เซลฟี
  • ไม้เซลฟี (máai-seel-fîi)extendable arm to hold a camera
Turkish selfie çubuğu
  • selfie çubuğuextendable arm to hold a camera
Vietnamese gậy tự sướng, gậy tự chụp hình
  • gậy tự sướngextendable arm to hold a camera
  • gậy tự chụp hìnhextendable arm to hold a camera
  • gậy chụp ảnh tự sướngextendable arm to hold a camera
  • gậy hỗ trợ tự chụp ảnhextendable arm to hold a camera
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APA

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