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selfy
A term that describes someone who takes pictures of oneself. Selfies are made possible by modern phone cameras that allow pictures to be taken from both the front and back sides.
The term selfy beat out conetenders like "twerk" and "bitcoin" in the annual Oxford Dictionaries comptition in 2013.
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- Part of Speech: noun
- Synonym(s): selfie
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