Instagram

American  

[in-stuh-gram] / ˈɪn stəˌgræm /

Trademark.

1. the brand name for a photo- and video-sharing application and social media platform launched in 2010.

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verb (used with object)

Instagrammed, Instagramming

1. to post (a photo or video) on the Instagram app.

   I’m Instagramming a video of the whole family enjoying the Mickey Mouse birthday cake.

   This garden is one of the sights most frequently Instagrammed by visitors to our city.

noun

1. a photo or video posted on the Instagram app.

   Oh, not another Instagram of her and her new puppy!

Other Word Forms

• Instagrammable adjective
• Instagrammed adjective
• Instagrammer noun

Example Sentences

His frigid exploits have earned him social media fame, with thousands following "Serbia's Iceman" on Instagram.

From Barron's

His follower count on Instagram has swelled and a short video he shared on 29 January has more than five million likes.

From BBC

“We believe she is still alive,” Savannah Guthrie wrote in an Instagram post on Tuesday.

From The Wall Street Journal

In an Instagram story posted Wednesday morning, Farah Griffin shared news that she gave birth to son Justin Patrick Griffin Jr.

From Los Angeles Times

“I could say more, but I shall say less,” she wrote Wednesday in a caption on an Instagram video showing her going back and forth on an airport’s moving sidewalk.

From Los Angeles Times