hashtag

From earlier hash tag, from hash (sign) +‎ tag. The hash sign # was initially proposed as tag hash by Chris Messina to create groups on Twitter,[1][2] modeled after the IRC channel prefix. First published use as hash tag by Stowe Boyd in 2007.[3]

• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈhæʃˌtæɡ/, enPR: hăsh'tăg

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hashtag (plural hashtags)

1. (Internet) A metadata tag, signaled by a preceding hash sign (#), used to label content. [from 2007]
   • 2007 Aug 25, Stowe Boyd, tweet, https://twitter.com/stoweboyd/status/226570552

     I support the hash tag convention: http://tinyurl.com/2qttlb #hashtag #factoryjoe #twitter

   • 2009, Paul McFedries, Pete Cashmore, Twitter Tips, Tricks, and Tweets:

     You can also search for a hashtag by typing a topic (without the #) in the search box and clicking Search.

   • 2009, Alistair Croll, Sean Power, Complete Web Monitoring:

     While hashtags aren't formally part of Twitter, some clients, such as Tweetdeck, will persist hashtags across replies to create a sort of message threading.

   • 2011, Rory Stewart, “Here we go again”, in London Review of Books, 33.VII:

     The planes are moving into position. The foreign ministers of minor Arab states are taking calls on their cell-phones from Western politicians. Twitter accounts explode around the Libyan hash-tag.

2. (Internet, informal) The hash sign itself, when used as part of a hashtag.
   • 2016, Emily Giffin, First Comes Love: A Novel, New York City: Ballantine Books, →ISBN, page 40:

     I sound like a shitty mother and wife. Or at the very least an inadequate wife and ungrateful mother–which is in stark contrast to the image I try to portray on Instagram. Hashtag happy life. Hashtag beautiful family. Hashtag blessed.

   • 2018, John Allison, By Night, volume 1, Los Angeles, CA: Boom! Box, →ISBN, page n.p.:

     You're perpetually stoned, aren't you? Hashtag four twenty four seven.

• bashtag
• cashtag
• hashtivism

• → German: Hashtag
• → Japanese: ハッシュタグ (hasshutagu)
• → Polish: hashtag
• → Russian: хеште́г (xɛštɛ́g)
• → Ukrainian: геште́ґ (heštég)

• Appendix:American Dialect Society words of the year

hashtag (third-person singular simple present hashtags, present participle hashtagging, simple past and past participle hashtagged)

1. (transitive, Internet) To label (a message) with a hashtag.

• hashtaggable
• hashtagger

• hashtag on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Borrowed from English hashtag.

hashtag

1. (Internet) hashtag

Borrowed from English hashtag.

• ^{(aspirated h)} IPA^(key): /aʃ.taɡ/

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hashtag m (plural hashtags)

1. (Internet) hashtag

   Synonyms: mot-clic, mot-dièse

• hashtaguer

• croisillon

• “hashtag”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

From English hashtag.

• IPA^(key): [ˈhɛʃtɛɡ]
• Hyphenation: hash‧tag

hashtag (plural hashtagek)

1. (Internet) hashtag
   • 2013 August 18, Dia Sákovics, “Miért osztjuk meg a neten a vacsoránk?”, in Origo‎, retrieved 2015-02-06:

     Az Instragramon több mint 40 millió fotó található a food hashtag alatt […]

     There are more than 40 million photos under the food hashtag on Instagram […]

   • 2014 October 2, “Nyolc magyar a legnagyobb újítók között”, in Origo‎, retrieved 2015-02-06:

     A New Europe 100-as listára bárki jelölhetett embereket a honlapon adott ajánlással vagy Twitteren a #NE100 hashtag használatával.

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Unadapted borrowing from English hashtag.

• IPA^(key): /ˈxaʂ.tak/

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• Rhymes: -aʂtak
• Syllabification: hash‧tag

hashtag m inan

1. (Internet) Alternative spelling of hasztag

• hashtag in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• hashtag in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Unadapted borrowing from English hashtag.

hashtag f or m (plural hashtags)

1. (Internet) hashtag (a tag with a hash sign)

Unadapted borrowing from English hashtag.

• IPA^(key): /ˈxaʃtaɡ/ [ˈxaʃ.t̪aɣ̞]
• Rhymes: -aʃtaɡ

hashtag m (plural hashtags)

1. hashtag

According to Royal Spanish Academy (RAE) prescriptions, unadapted foreign words should be written in italics in a text printed in roman type, and vice versa, and in quotation marks in a manuscript text or when italics are not available. In practice, this RAE prescription is not always followed.