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Definition of 'shelfie'

English

Noun

(en-noun)
  • (slang) A photograph of a bookshelf/bookcase taken by its owner and shared on social media.
  • * 2013 , Hector Tobar, " Hey everybody, let's 'shelfie!'", Los Angeles Times , 18 December 2013:
  • Besides a feline closeup she’s placed on one shelf, and an opera mask on another, her shelfie shows a wonderful collection of books about music, including “The Rough Guide to Opera,” several biographies of Mozart and the history “Women Making Music.”
  • * 2014 , Dale Hrabi, " The Rise of the 'Shelfie': Instagram's Next Craze", The Wall Street Journal , 25 April 2014:
  • She's certainly observed the rate at which people are posting shelfies on Instagram.
  • * 2014 , " Sharing your shelfie", Winnipeg Free Press , 31 May 2014:
  • Some practitioners have tried to position the shelfie as "the intellectual's selfie," making it seem like some digital form of 17th-century Dutch still-life painting.
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