Instamatic

American  

[in-stuh-mat-ik] / ˌɪn stəˈmæt ɪk /

Trademark.

1. a brand name for a pocket-size, fixed-focus, snapshot camera.

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Example Sentences

Duggan showed bar patrons images of Donohue eating rations with his ambush patrol unit, photos he took with the Kodak Instamatic camera his mother sent him in Vietnam.

From New York Times

Her career took a sharp detour in the late ’70s, when a friend from the Fashion Institute of Technology, the fashion illustrator Antonio Lopez, gave her an inexpensive Kodak Instamatic 110, which she used to take snapshots of her work, as well as the overall scene, at fashion shows.

From New York Times

They’d pepper me with questions, usually about the little instamatic camera I was carrying.

From Seattle Times

The candidate has wavy brown hair and a light brown jacket and appears to have a black Super 8 Kodak Instamatic camera.

From Washington Post

“At the moment, it’s our best guess that our mystery man is #2, Brown Jacket Man with the Instamatic,” Mashon wrote.

From Washington Post