instaban
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instaban (third-person singular simple present instabans, present participle instabanning, simple past and past participle instabanned)
- (informal, Internet) To ban without hesitation.
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instaban (plural instabans)
- (informal, Internet) An immediate ban.
- 2015 July 28, Elizabeth Denton, “Instagram Banned #Goddess and People Are Seriously Upset”, in Seventeen Magazine:
- Next up in confusing Instabans...
- 2019 January 4, “Healthy holidays and a sunscreen rethink: top five travel trends for 2019”, in The Guardian:
- Instabans will spread.
- 2019 April 15, “Sony ends auto-bans for offensive PSN IDs – changes them automatically instead”, in Metro:
- You'll no longer catch an instaban for giving your PSN ID a potentially offensive name, as Sony plans to check each case individually.
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instaban