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Polaroid mania 

Wasting copious amounts of expensive instant film like some kind of drug addict in the quest to get a photographic work of art out of a 40-year-old camera which was never designed to be much more than a handheld novelty to begin with. The quest is made nearly impossible by a relatively slow exposure and no tripod mount or cable release.

Symptoms of madness are closely related to the manic phase of bipolar disorder, and include fevered financial worry and strained ties to family and friends due to the hobby taking priority in the user's life.
User, waking in a caustic pile of spent peel-apart backings: "Jeezus Kodak! I just blew through $40 of instant film in two hours..."
Concerned friend: "Sounds like a brief episode of Polaroid mania. Say, have you ever heard of a digital camera?"
User: "Need_________more_________flashcubes..."
Polaroid mania by JfromBMo June 7, 2011
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polaroid boy 

A friend or significant other of the male sex that can only be found in Polaroid pictures.
You’ll forever be my Polaroid boy
polaroid boy by KJ3100 June 19, 2021

Polaroid One-Step 

That's what you get when you take the genes of a Polok, and the genes of a one- legged Mongoloid and merge them together.
" Oh shit Earny,that freekin' Polaroid One-step is raking leaves up in the tree.
(Ya gotta love those Polish jokes)!
Polaroid One-Step by mavros April 29, 2006

Polaroid picture 

A Polaroid picture is very common to SOME singers and come out of a camera

Polaroid wank 

I've perfected the art of the polaroid wank to a point where it takes less hand-waving to reveal an actual polaroid than to get myself off.
Polaroid wank by DjTrololo January 6, 2020

double polaroid 

Male genital erection.

A slang phrase adopted by Dave Lister in an episode of British sci-fi comedy Red Dwarf when presented with 2 polaroid images by former mechanoid Kryten who's coming terms with his all-new human status.
'No vacuum cleaner should give a human being a double polaroid.'
double polaroid by Danny_G13 July 7, 2005

shake it like a Polaroid picture 

Comes from the song Hey Ya! by a group called Outkast intoning women to shake it out on the dance floor. Refers back to when people used to wave around or fan their instant photos in order to dry them. The popularity of this song/phrase caused the Polaroid company to put out a press release warning people NOT to shake today's Polaroids because it would ruin them.
She knew how to attract men: she would get out on the dance floor and shake it like a Polaroid picture!