Instadad

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See also: instadad and insta-dad

English

Etymology

Blend of Instagram +‎ dad.

Noun

Instadad (plural Instadads)

  1. (informal) A father who runs an Instagram account focused on his child/children or fatherhood in general.
    • 2017 March, Catherine Hudson, “Who's the daddy?”, in Gurgle, page 81:
      With Instadads making their mark on social media, Catherine Hudson checks out their must-haves
    • 2018 March 1, “5 questions for...Instadad Burr Martin”, in Big Daddy, page 11:
      The Instadad (@therealburrmartin) has more followers than his daughter, standing at almost 153,000.
    • 2020, Mario Campana, Astrid Van den Bossche, Bryoney Miller, “#dadtribe: Performing Sharenting Labourto Commercialise Involved Fatherhood”, in Journal of Macromarketing, volume 40, number 4:
      As torchbearers for an unapologetically involved form of fatherhood, the Instadads congregate, share advice, and provide support to each other, as well as a growing audience of male and female parents on Instagram.
    • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:Instadad.

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