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Flickr

Flickr proper noun: an online social networking service that enables users to share photos.

flickr: an online social networking service that enables users to share photos
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Proper noun

Flickr

  1. (trademark) An online social networking service that enables users to share photos.
    • Today, popularity is typically a multialgorithmic measure. At Flickr, a photo's interestingness derives from views, comments, notes, bookmarks, favorites...2010, Peter Morville, Jeffery Callender, Search Patterns: Design for Discovery

Noun

Flickr (plural Flickrs)

  1. (informal) An account on Flickr.
    • Pics up on my Flickr.2007 February 4, Bella Jones, “Best podcast reader?”, in uk.comp.sys.mac (Usenet)
    • Seriously, check out pics on my Flickr.2009, Alexander Aciman, Emmett Rensin, “The Overcoat by Nikolai Gogol”, in Twitterature: The World’s Greatest Books in Twenty Tweets or Less, New York, N.Y.: Penguin Books, →ISBN, page 34

Examples of Flickr in a sentence

  • My Flickr has some new pictures of St Stan's in Cleveland, Oh2011 March 24, Joe, “Honky Express Cd^([sic]) Release Party”, in alt.music.polkas (Usenet):
  • The most complete collection of notgeld online comes courtesy of Brooklynite Miguel Oks, whose German ancestors began archiving the bills in the 1930s—thousands of which you can see on his Flickr.2013 September 24, Kelsey Campbell-Dollaghan, “The Intricate Makeshift Money Germans Relied On Between World Wars”, in Gizmodo, →OCLC...

Forms of Flickr

pluralFlickrs

Origin of Flickr

From flick (“photograph”) + -er, suggested as an alteration of flicker by co-founder Caterina Fake after the domain owner of flicker.com refused to sell it.

Words formed from Flickr

Questions about Flickr

What does Flickr mean?
Flickr means an online social networking service that enables users to share photos.
How do you use Flickr in a sentence?
My Flickr has some new pictures of St Stan's in Cleveland, Oh
What part of speech is Flickr?
Flickr can be a proper noun or a noun.

Words near Flickr in the dictionary

  1. flicking the bean
  2. flicking through
  3. Flickinger
  4. Flickingers
  5. flickings
  6. Flickr
  7. Flickrer
  8. Flickrers
  9. Flickrite
  10. Flickrites
  11. Flickrs

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: Flickr (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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