Instadad

Instadad

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, Catherine Hudson, "Who's the daddy?", Gurgle, March 2017, page 81:

     With Instadads making their mark on social media, Catherine Hudson checks out their must-haves

   • 2018, "5 questions for...Instadad Burr Martin", Big Daddy, 1 March 2018, 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", Journal of Macromarketing, Volume 40, Issue 4 (2020):

     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.

Hypernyms

• sharent

Coordinate terms

• Instamom