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Instagramming

Instagramming is the present participle and gerund of Instagram.

Meaning of Instagram

Verb

Instagram (third-person singular simple present Instagrams, present participle Instagramming, simple past and past participle Instagrammed)

  1. (intransitive) To use the social networking service Instagram.
    • The thinking goes that if the modern audience watches TV on laptops, while Instagramming and checking emails at the same time, why would contemporary artists ignore that and insist on trapping them in a silent black box for an hour?2013 July 5, Lyndsey Winship, “Mårten Spångberg, the bad boy of contemporary dance”, in The Guardian
  2. (ambitransitive) To post an image or video of (something) to Instagram.
    • Her mother cried when she answered / Said she don't know what got inside this child's mind, she planted / A box of condoms on her dresser then she Instagrammed it.2012, Nas, No I.D., Patrick Adams, Gary DeCarlo, Dale Frashuer, Paul Leka, “Daughters” (track 5), in Life is Good, performed by Nas
  3. (ambitransitive) To digitally manipulate a photograph using filter effects.
    • To illustrate, I used B-roll of photos on the iPhone that were being “Instagrammed” (Figure 8.6) with fun filters along with screen captures of Instragram's No. 1 ranking in the iTunes App Store and the Apple website touting the iPhone 4S.2012, Jefferson Graham, Video Nation, →ISBN, page 160

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Questions about Instagramming

What is Instagramming the present participle and gerund of?
Instagramming is the present participle and gerund of Instagram.

Words near Instagramming in the dictionary

  1. Instagrammability
  2. Instagrammable
  3. Instagrammed
  4. Instagrammer
  5. Instagrammers
  6. Instagramming
  7. Instagrams
  8. instakill
  9. instakilled
  10. instakilling
  11. instakills

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Adapted from Wiktionary: Instagramming (page history and authors); Instagram (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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