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)

2. (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.

4. (Internet, metonymic, 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.

   • 2024 July 31, Heather Schwedel, Is J.D. Vance Wearing Eyeliner?‎^[4]:

     The Occam’s razor explanation is that he’s just hashtag-blessed with the kind of lustrous lashes that many people spend a lot of money (and rack up a lot of Sephora Beauty Insider points) trying to get.

• → German: Hashtag
• → Japanese: ハッシュタグ (hasshutagu)
• → Polish: hashtag
• → Russian: хеште́г (hɛštɛ́g)
• → 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. (ambitransitive, Internet) To label (a message) with a hashtag.
   • 2015 July 2, Julia Carpenter, “Can we ever beat the bots? Not on Instagram.”, in The Washington Post‎^[5]:

     The photo-sharing site was riddled with fake accounts that liked, followed and hashtagged out the wazoo. Then came the great “Instagram Rapture,” Instagram’s pledge last December to clean out the fake accounts and do “everything possible to keep Instagram free from the fake and spammy accounts that plague much of the web.”

• 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^[6], retrieved 6 February 2015:

     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^[7], retrieved 6 February 2015:

     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)

• “hashtag”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2025

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.