finstaとは 意味・読み方・使い方

名詞

finsta (複数形 finstas)

1. (informal) Clipping of finstagram.
   • 2017, Nancy Jo Sales, American Girls: Social Media and the Secret Lives of Teenagers, page 134:

     “My little sister who's in middle school is doing finstas,” Carrie said.

   • 2020, Christopher D. DeSante & ‎Candis Watts Smith, The Millennial Generation and the Stagnation of Racial Attitudes in American Politics, page 101:

     On a seemingly regular basis, young White people's overtly racist remarks are moved out of the shadows of their “Finstas” (fake instagram accounts) and into the “public” domain to be judged by all.

   • 2021, anonymous student, quoted in Roberta Katz, ‎Sarah Ogilvie, & ‎Jane Shaw, Gen Z, Explained: The Art of Living in a Digital Age, page 74:

     I'd say the concept of sliding into one's DMs [direct messages] on Instagram is very powerful, especially because finstas allow people to be more open about things.

   • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:finsta.

短縮形

finsta

語源

From contraction of “fixing to”. Synonymous with “finna”.

1. African-American Vernacular and Southern US form of fixing to: used to express a desire or future action.

   I'm finsta go to the store.