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Instamatic|ɪnstəˈmætɪk|
Also with lower case initial.
[f. instant a. + automatic a.]
A proprietary name for a type of self-loading camera. Also fig.
1962Trade Marks Jrnl. 19 Sept. 1266/1 Instamatic 834,322. Photographic, cinematographic and optical apparatus and instruments, and parts and fittings... Kodak Limited, Kodak House, Kingsway, London, W.C.2; Manufacturers. 1962Official Gaz. (U.S. Patent Office) 11 Dec. tm 68 Eastman Kodak Company, Rochester, N.Y... Instamatic. For Photographic Cameras. 1964Ladies' Home Jrnl. May 3 (Advt.), Kodak Instamatic Cameras load instantly, automatically. 1970N. Fleming Czech Point vi. 70 At six-fifteen the next morning I set out in the car with notebook and Instamatic at the ready. 1973Art Internat. Mar. 58/1 The long tirade looked like nothing so much as a Pinocchio-minded exercise: an easy-thinking, instamatic demonstration of art-destructive politics. 1978A. Welch Bk. Airsports ii. 32/2 (caption) Instamatic cameras are used and fixed to the side of the cockpit. 1984E. Fairweather Only Rivers run Free i. 1 A soldier lined up his Instamatic for a snapshot of an effigy on the top of an unlit bonfire. |