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🖼️ A moving image 🖼️ To send animation
to GIF

to GIF

1 4.2
Send a short repeating image in messages or on social media to show a reaction
  • verb
  • /dʒɪf/
  • Texting
translation icon : enviar un GIF
  • I often GIF my friends funny reactions to their texts.

Examples

  • I GIF, you GIF, we all GIF!

    Blog text (30)

  • We gif.

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  • So I gave you, I think I sent you a GIF, as you like to say.

  • Then you send a GIF of maybe a clip of point.

  • Or just keep sending GIFs of us to us on Twitter when we ask.

  • She decided to GIF a cute cat video to express her excitement.

  • Whenever I feel bored, I GIF memes to my group chat to keep everyone entertained.

How Expressive

shorts
  • Texting
3.0
to GIF
  • Texting
1 4.2
emoji
  • Texting
15 3.0
text
  • Texting
338 1.0

Surface Forms

GIF infinitive
GIFed past
GIFed past participle
GIFing present participle
GIFs third person singular

Morphology

GIF = GIF (semi-transparent) = G + I + F

The verb is a straightforward zero-derived use of the noun 'GIF' meaning to send or create a GIF. [Postprocessing: changed transparency from 'transparent' to 'semi-transparent' for abbreviation]

Etymology

GIF as a verb comes from the noun GIF and simply means to send or make a short looping image to show a reaction. So, to GIF someone today is to express an idea with a quick animated picture.