Instamatic

noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    A kind of inexpensive point-and-shoot camera.

    "I wanna be Instamatic / I wanna be a frozen pea / I wanna be dehydrated / In a consumer society"

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"I wanna be Instamatic / I wanna be a frozen pea / I wanna be dehydrated / In a consumer society"

Etymology

Trade name of the 1960s, from insta- + automatic.

Related phrases

point and shoot

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