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A photograph a person takes of themselves, typically with a phone held at arm's length or via a front-facing camera, one of the most widely adopted pieces of vocabulary smartphone cameras produced.
REAL-WORLD EXAMPLE
"She took a quick selfie before heading out the door."
LORE & ORIGIN
The term gained mainstream popularity in the early 2010s as front-facing smartphone cameras made self-photography trivially easy, becoming common enough to be named Oxford Dictionaries' Word of the Year in 2013.
FIRST SEEN
2010
PEAK POPULARITY
2026 (Instagram Visual Grammar Canon)
CURRENT STATUS
Legacy / Decaying Slang
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2010
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