selfies

1. 1
   noun

   Plural of selfie.

   The museum banned selfies near the most fragile paintings.

   He deleted hundreds of blurry selfies from his phone.

   Note

   The plural covers both kinds of self-portrait: the casual phone snapshot, and the slang sense of an overly staged or edited picture shared on social media. Because the singular already ends in -ie, nothing changes except the added -s. The same spelling also serves the verb form, so "two selfies" and "she selfies" look identical on the page and only the sentence tells them apart.

2. 2
   verbcolloquial

   Third-person singular simple present of selfie.

   My cousin selfies at every landmark she visits on her travels.

   The influencer selfies before, during, and after each public event.

   Note

   A verb made straight from the noun, and an intransitive one: someone selfies at a landmark rather than selfies the landmark. Whatever appears in the picture follows a preposition such as at, with or beside. The verb is informal, more at home in casual writing than in careful prose, and its -s ending is the spelling it shares with the plural noun.

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