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iPhone face

iPhone face noun: a face that is inappropriate for a period drama.

Noun

iPhone face (plural iPhone faces)

  1. (Internet, neologism) A face that is inappropriate for a period drama.
    • “It’s so hard with teens, because you want them to feel contemporary enough that they feel like real people,” Kazan says. “But I was like, I really don’t want them to have ‘iPhone face.’ I really want them to feel like they belong to the 19-teens.”2026 August 18, Hillary Busis, “East of Eden: Zoe Kazan on How She Made Steinbeck’s Masterpiece Her Own”, in Vanity Fair, archived from the original on 19 Aug 2026

Forms of iPhone face

pluraliPhone faces

Questions about iPhone face

What does iPhone face mean?
IPhone face means a face that is inappropriate for a period drama.
What part of speech is iPhone face?
IPhone face is a noun.
What is the plural of iPhone face?
The plural of iPhone face is iPhone faces.

Words near iPhone face in the dictionary

  1. Iphigenia
  2. Iphimedeia
  3. Iphimedia
  4. Iphis
  5. iPhone
  6. iPhone face
  7. iPhone moment
  8. iPhone moments
  9. iPhoneography
  10. iPhoner
  11. iPhoners

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