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Definition of 'selfie'English
Noun
( en-noun)
(label) A photographic self-portrait, especially one taken manually (not using a timer, tripod etc.) with a small camera or mobile phone.
* 2002 September 13, N. "Hopey" Hope, "re: Dissolvable stitches" ABC Online Forum [[http://wayback.archive.org/web/20040118000958/http://mcs.une.edu.au/~nhope/lip.jpg selfie photo] :
- Um, drunk at a mates(SIC) 21st, I tripped ofer(SIC) and landed lip first (with front teeth coming a very close second) on a set of steps. I had a hole about 1cm long right through my bottom lip. And sorry about the focus, it was a selfie .
* 2004 October 21, Brian McGuirk, "bmcguirk's photos." [http://wayback.archive.org/web/20041126014124/http://www.flickr.com/photos/mcguirk/], Flickr:
- Pre. Nice rooftop selfie'. No Hair. Another nice rooftop ' selfie .
* 2005 , Jim Krause, Photo Idea Index , HOW Books (2005), ISBN 9781581807660, page 148 :
- That's not to imply that it's "wrong" for your arm or hand to show up in a selfie .
* 2012' December 27, Andrew Prince, “The Mars Rover Takes A '''Selfie ” [http://www.npr.org/blogs/pictureshow/2012/12/27/168139129/the-mars-rover-takes-a-selfie], ''the picture show , National Public Radio
* 2013' December 13, Roberto Schmidt (guest), Brooke Gladstone (interviewer and editor), “The Photographer Behind ‘'''Selfie -Gate’”, ''On the Media , National Public Radio:
- Barack Obama was talking to David Cameron and with the Danish Prime Minister, and that’s when she actually reached into her purse and brought out a cell phone and stretched her arms and did a selfie with them.
Derived terms
* (l)
Hypernyms
* self-portrait
Verb
(informal) to take a selfie
External links
* (Selfie)
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