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plural selfies
(informal, mobile telephony) A photographic self-portrait, especially one taken manually (not using a timer, tripod etc.) with a small camera or mobile phone. quotations examples
Um, drunk at a mates[sic] 21st, I tripped ofer[sic] and landed lip first (with front teeth coming a very close second) on a set of steps. I had a hole about 1cm long right through my bottom lip. And sorry about the focus, it was a selfie.
2002 September 13, N. "Hopey" Hope, "re: Dissolvable stitches" , ABC Online Forum selfie photo
Pre. Nice rooftop selfie. […] No Hair. Another nice rooftop selfie.
2004 October 21, Brian McGuirk, "bmcguirk's photos." , Flickr
That's not to imply that it's "wrong" for your arm or hand to show up in a selfie.
2005, Jim Krause, Photo Idea Index, HOW Books, published 2005, page 148
Barack Obama was talking to David Cameron and with the Danish Prime Minister, and that’s when she actually reached into her purse and brought out a cell phone and stretched her arms and did a selfie with them.
2013 December 13, Roberto Schmidt (guest), Brooke Gladstone (interviewer and editor), “The Photographer Behind ‘Selfie-Gate’”, On the Media, National Public Radio
I shall take this photograph myself. This must be what they call a selfie.
2017, Lord Stag, “Say Cheese”, in Lily's Driftwood Bay
third-person singular simple present selfies, present participle selfying, simple past and past participle selfied
(intransitive, informal, mobile telephony) To take a selfie. examples