Meaning of facebook | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A reference book or electronic directory containing the photographs and names of various individuals.
2. A social-networking website where users can find acquaintances or friends, exchange messages, and post updates.
3. A personal web profile on the social-networking site Facebook.
4. A college publication distributed at the start of the academic year by university administrations with the intention of helping students become acquainted with each other.

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Examples

“He had gotten the call from the casino-a client who had recognized them from the facebook-and had flown down to the Bahamas to teach them a lesson.”

“The shipment of facebooks will be distributed to the freshmen during orientation and move-in-week.”

“In the last month, since he’d embarked on projects like digitally scanning Melissa Paquette’s face from a freshman facebook and suturing her head to obscene downloaded images and tinkering with these images pixel by pixel (and the hours did fly by when you were tinkering with pixels), he’d read no books at all.”

“Kevin was surprised to see his own face on the card. It was an authentic California ID under the name Oliver Chen. "Where'd you get the picture?" Kevin asked. "Your MIT facebook."”

“There is no interests section in the facebook. You know why? No one wants to flip through a book to find out which girls play chess.”

“Mia was just seeing a reel on Facebook that her friend had posted.”

“Google is one of several Big Tech firms that has made an aggressive push into gaming in recent years, along with Amazon (AMZN), Apple (AAPL) and Facebook (FB).”

“You might have a Facebook. So do I. And so does my mom and my grandma and all of her friends. But you know who doesn’t have a Facebook? Your kid’s friends.”

“'An intimate photo has been posted on your cloned Facebook page,' says Greg. 'What, of me in the nuddy?' Nick snorts a note of laughter. 'No, of you and a woman.' 'What woman? Show me,' he says holding his hand out.”

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