Instamaticn.
/ɪnstəˈmatɪk/ A proprietary name for a type of self-loading camera. Also figurative.
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Instamatic1962
1962 Trade 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.
1962 Official Gaz. (U.S. Patent Office) 11 Dec. tm68 Eastman Kodak Company, Rochester, N.Y... Instamatic. For Photographic Cameras.
1964 Ladies' Home Jrnl. May 3 (advt.) Kodak Instamatic Cameras load instantly, automatically.
1970 N. Fleming Czech Point vi. 70 At six-fifteen the next morning I set out in the car with notebook and Instamatic at the ready.
1973 Art 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.
1978 A. Welch Bk. of Airsports ii. 32/2 (caption) Instamatic cameras are used and fixed to the side of the cockpit.
1984 E. Fairweather et al. 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.
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