Instadad

noun

Instadad

noun

Etymology Blend of Instagram + dad.

1

Informal A father who runs an Instagram account focused on his child or children or fatherhood in general.

  • With Instadads making their mark on social media, Catherine Hudson checks out their must-haves2017 March, Catherine Hudson, “Who's the daddy?”, in Gurgle, page 81:
  • The Instadad (@therealburrmartin) has more followers than his daughter, standing at almost 153,000.2018 March 1, “5 questions for...Instadad Burr Martin”, in Big Daddy, page 11:
1 more example
  • 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.2020, Mario Campana, Astrid Van den Bossche, Bryoney Miller, “#dadtribe: Performing Sharenting Labourto Commercialise Involved Fatherhood”, in Journal of Macromarketing, volume 40, number 4:

Entry derived from the Wiktionary, under licence CC BY-SA 4.0 — list of authors.