# hashtag
## English
### Etymology

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, modeled after the IRC channel prefix. First published use as hash tag by Stowe Boyd in 2007.

### Pronunciation

* (US) IPA: /ˈhæʃˌtæɡ/, enPR: hăsh'tăg
* Audio (Southern England):(file)
* Audio (US):(file)

### Noun

hashtag (plural hashtags)
* (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.
* (Internet, metonymically, 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?‎: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.

#### Derived terms

* bashtag
* cashtag
* hashtivism

#### Descendants

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

#### See also

* Appendix:American Dialect Society words of the year

### Verb

hashtag (third-person singular simple present hashtags, present participle hashtagging, simple past and past participle hashtagged)
* (transitive, intransitive, 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: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.”

#### Derived terms

* hashtaggable
* hashtagger

### References

* ↑ Chris Messina (2007 August 23) Twitter‎, archived from the original on 2013-11-09: “how do you feel about using # (pound) for groups. As in #barcamp [msg]?”
* ↑ Chris Messina (2007 August 25) “Groups for Twitter; or A Proposal for Twitter Tag Channels”, in factoryjoe.com‎, archived from the original on 2007-10-12, retrieved 23 August 2017
* ↑ Stowe Boyd (2007 August 26) “Hash Tags = Twitter Groupings”, in stoweboyd.com‎, archived from the original on 2013-01-12

### Further reading

* hashtag on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

## Danish
### Etymology

Borrowed from English hashtag.

### Noun

hashtag
* (Internet) hashtag

#### Declension
## French
### Etymology

Borrowed from English hashtag.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /aʃ.taɡ/
* Audio:(file)

### Noun

hashtag m (plural hashtags)
* (Internet) hashtag
    Synonyms: mot-clic, mot-dièse

#### Derived terms

* hashtaguer

#### Related terms

* croisillon

### Further reading

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

## Hungarian
### Etymology

From English hashtag.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: [ˈhɛʃtɛɡ]
* Hyphenation: hash‧tag

### Noun

hashtag (plural hashtagek)
* (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.(please add an English translation of this quotation)

#### Declension
## Polish
### Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English hashtag.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈxaʂ.tak/
* Audio:(file)
* Rhymes: -aʂtak
* Syllabification: hash‧tag

### Noun

hashtag m inan
* (Internet) Alternative spelling of hasztag

#### Declension
### Further reading

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

## Portuguese
### Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English hashtag.

### Pronunciation

* (Brazil) IPA: /ʁɛʃˈtɛ.ɡi/ [hɛʃˈtɛ.ɡi]
* (Brazil) IPA: /ʁɛʃˈtɛ.ɡi/ [hɛʃˈtɛ.ɡi]
** (Rio de Janeiro) IPA: /ʁɛʃˈtɛ.ɡi/ [χɛʃˈtɛ.ɡi]
** (Southern Brazil) IPA: /ʁɛʃˈtɛ.ɡe/ [hɛʃˈtɛ.ɡe]
* (Portugal) IPA: /ˌɛ.ʃɨˈtɛ.ɡɨ/ [ˌɛ.ʃɨˈtɛ.ɣɨ]

### Noun

hashtag f or m (plural hashtags)
* (Internet) hashtag (a tag with a hash sign)

#### Related terms

* tag
* tagar

### Further reading

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

## Spanish
### Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English hashtag.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈxaʃtaɡ/ [ˈxaʃ.t̪aɣ̞]
* Rhymes: -aʃtaɡ

### Noun

hashtag m (plural hashtags)
* hashtag

#### Usage notes

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.