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selfie stick

selfie stick noun: an extendable monopod arm onto which a smartphone or camera can be mounted in order to take wide-angle photographs of oneself.

selfie stick: an extendable monopod arm onto which a smartphone or camera can be mounted in order to take...
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Noun

selfie stick (plural selfie sticks)

  1. An extendable monopod arm onto which a smartphone or camera can be mounted in order to take wide-angle photographs of oneself.
    • For example, photography shop Artworkfoto in Funan DigitaLife Mall sells about five selfie sticks every day.2014 March 30, Benson Ang, “Selfie sticks are hot”, in The Sunday Times, Singapore, page L4
    • We snapped another selfie (one of the guys, Royston out of our newly acquired Singapore Zopim office, introduced the Exchange to the selfie stick, and that photo is now legendary.)2014, Mikkel Svane, Startupland: How Three Guys Risked Everything to Turn an Idea into a Global Business, John Wiley & Sons (2014), pages 176-177, published 8 December

selfie stick meaning in Tamil, Indonesian, Thai and Vietnamese

selfie stick in Tamil

கைப்படக் கோல்

selfie stick in Indonesian

extendable arm to hold a camera
tongkat narsis

selfie stick in Thai

extendable arm to hold a camera
ไม้เซลฟี máai-seel-fîi

selfie stick in Vietnamese

extendable arm to hold a camera
gậy tự sướng, gậy tự chụp hình, gậy chụp ảnh tự sướng, gậy hỗ trợ tự chụp ảnh

Forms of selfie stick

pluralselfie sticks

Questions about selfie stick

What does selfie stick mean?
Selfie stick means an extendable monopod arm onto which a smartphone or camera can be mounted in order to take wide-angle photographs of oneself.
What is selfie stick in Tamil?
Selfie stick in Tamil is கைப்படக் கோல். See Selfie stick meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is selfie stick?
Selfie stick is a noun.
What is the plural of selfie stick?
The plural of selfie stick is selfie sticks.

Words near selfie stick in the dictionary

  1. selficide
  2. selficides
  3. selfie
  4. selfie camera
  5. selfie cameras
  6. selfie stick
  7. selfie sticks
  8. selfied
  9. selfies
  10. selfindulgence
  11. selfindulgences

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