screenshot

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noun

screen·​shot ˈskrēn-ˌshät 

: an image that shows the contents of a computer display

screenshot

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verb

screenshotted; screenshotting; screenshots

transitive verb

: to capture a screenshot of (an image on a computer display)

"Amazing … Can you screenshot that and send it to me?"

—Laura Loomer

… while you can prevent someone from forwarding an email, you can't stop them from screenshotting it and sending the image on.

—Jon Porter

The White House quickly deleted the tweet, but … somebody managed to screenshot it first.

—Sophie Lloyd

Examples of screenshot in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

Noun

Angela Byrd, one of Brittany Byrd's attorneys and her stepmother, argued the screenshot couldn't be replicated and that whoever took it wasn't present to testify about the nature of it. —Daniel McFadin, Arkansas Online, 31 Dec. 2025

El Salvador presidential press office via AP, File Also in March, The Atlantic posted screenshots of texts from a Signal group chat that nadvertently included a journalist as Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth and other top national security officials discussed plans for an attack on Houthis in Yemen. —Caroline Linton, CBS News, 31 Dec. 2025

Verb

Keep scrolling for the best silver nails ideas on Instagram, and get ready to screenshot. —Grace McCarty, Glamour, 18 Dec. 2025

Draper screenshot that and took things to her Instagram stories. —Bethy Squires, Vulture, 26 Nov. 2025

Word History

First Known Use

Noun

1983, in the meaning defined above

Verb

1995, in the meaning defined above

Rhymes for screenshot

• allot
• barat
• begot
• besought
• bethought
• bloodshot
• boycott
• buckshot
• crackpot
• croat
• culottes
• dashpot