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/

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", 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.
   • 2016, Giffin, Emily, 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.

• bashtag
• hashtivism

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.

• hashtag on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Borrowed from English hashtag.

hashtag

1. (Internet) hashtag

Borrowed from English hashtag.

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

hashtag m (plural hashtags)

1. (Internet) hashtag

• mot-clic
• mot-dièse

• hashtaguer

• croisillon

• “hashtag” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

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.

hashtag f or m (in variation) (plural hashtags)

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

hashtag m (plural hashtags)

1. hashtag