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Instastory

Instastory is the alternative form of Insta story.

Instastory is the alternative form of Insta-story.

Meaning of Insta story

Noun

Insta story (plural Insta stories)

  1. (informal) A story (chronological collection of pictures or short videos) on Instagram.
    • Watching Mattingly, I can’t help but wonder how he deals with touchscreens in the wild: Does he speed through the process at a Target self-checkout? How elaborate does he make his Insta stories? Is he passing on these skills to his children?2020 November 6, Yvonne Villarreal, “Move over, chartthrobs King, Kornacki. We’re watching these 10 election 2020 standouts”, in Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles, Calif.: Los Angeles Times...

Meaning of Insta-story

Verb

Insta-story (third-person singular simple present Insta-stories, present participle Insta-storying, simple past and past participle Insta-storied)

  1. (informal, transitive) To post (something) as a story (chronological collection of pictures or short videos) on Instagram.
    • Politicians already have a lot to learn from Ocasio-Cortez’s social media presence — and, for that matter, her platform. And because she’s one of the most beloved Democratic politicians of the moment, it’s likely that Insta-storied skin care and Beto O’Rourke’s constant cooking live streams will...2019 January 28, Rebecca Jennings, “You don’t have to care about AOC’s skin care routine. But you should care about how she responded to critics.”, in Vox, archived from the original on 29 Jan 2019

Forms of Instastory

Noun
pluralInstastories
Verb
third-person singular presentInstastories
present participleInstastorying
past participleInstastoried
pastInstastoried

Questions about Instastory

What is Instastory the alternative form of?
Instastory is the alternative form of Insta story.

Words near Instastory in the dictionary

  1. instars
  2. instasend
  3. Instashit
  4. Instastoried
  5. Instastories
  6. Instastory
  7. Instastorying
  8. instate
  9. instated
  10. instatement
  11. instatements

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: Instastory (page history and authors); Insta story (page history and authors); Insta-story (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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