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 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.

Hypernyms

• sharent

Coordinate terms

• Instamom