hashtag
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: derivation
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.
Base: hash
Inflected forms:
form: hashtags
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: hashtags
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: hashtagging
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: hashtagged
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: hashtagged
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: A metadata tag, signaled by a preceding hash sign (#), used to label content.
pos: noun
tags: Internet
examples: I support the hash tag convention: http://tinyurl.com/2qttlb #hashtag #factoryjoe #twitter
You can also search for a hashtag by typing a topic (without the #) in the search box and clicking Search.
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.
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.
gloss: The hash sign itself, especially when used as part of a hashtag.
pos: noun
tags: Internet
informal
metonymically
examples: 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.
You're perpetually stoned, aren't you? Hashtag four twenty four seven.
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.
gloss: To label (a message) with a hashtag.
pos: verb
tags: Internet
ambitransitive
examples: 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 words: bashtag
blacktag
cashtag
hashflag
hashtivism
Translations:
lang: Afrikaans
word: hutsmerk
lang: Arabic
word: وَسْم
roman: wasm
lang: Arabic
word: هَاشْتَاق
roman: hāštāq
lang: Arabic
word: هَاشْتَاغ
roman: hāštāḡ
lang: Arabic
word: هاشْتاق
roman: haštāg
lang: Armenian
word: հեշթեգ
roman: heštʻeg
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 井號標籤 /井号标签
roman: jǐnghào biāoqiān
lang: Czech
word: hashtag
lang: Czech
word: heštek
lang: Danish
word: hashtag
lang: Dutch
word: hashtag
lang: Esperanto
word: kradvorto
lang: Estonian
word: hashtag
lang: Estonian
word: räsimärk
lang: Estonian
word: teemaviide
lang: Finnish
word: aihetunniste
lang: Finnish
word: hashtag
lang: Finnish
word: hästäkki
lang: French
word: mot-clic
lang: French
word: mot-dièse
lang: French
word: hashtag
lang: Galician
word: cancelo
lang: Georgian
word: ჰეშტეგი
roman: hešṭegi
lang: Georgian
word: ჰეშთეგი
roman: heštegi
lang: German
word: Hashtag
lang: Hungarian
word: hashtag
lang: Icelandic
word: myllumerki
lang: Icelandic
word: kassamerki
lang: Indonesian
word: tagar
lang: Indonesian
word: tanda pagar
lang: Italian
word: hashtag
lang: Japanese
word: ハッシュタグ
roman: hasshutagu
lang: Korean
word: 해시태그
roman: haesitaegeu
lang: Malay
word: tanda pagar
lang: Māori
word: tohumarau
lang: Norwegian
word: emneknagg
lang: Occitan
word: etiqueta
lang: Persian
word: هشتگ
roman: haštag
lang: Polish
word: hashtag
lang: Polish
word: hasztag
lang: Portuguese
word: marcador
lang: Portuguese
word: hashtag
lang: Russian
word: ме́тка
roman: métka
lang: Russian
word: хэште́г
roman: xɛštɛ́g
lang: Russian
word: хеште́г
roman: xɛštɛ́g
lang: Slovak
word: hashtag
lang: Spanish
word: hashtag
lang: Spanish
word: etiqueta
lang: Spanish
word: almohadilla
lang: Swedish
word: hashtag
lang: Thai
word: แฮชแท็ก
roman: hɛ́ch-tɛ̀k
lang: Turkish
word: etiket
lang: Ukrainian
word: геште́ґ
roman: heštég
lang: Ukrainian
word: хеште́г
roman: xeštéh
lang: Welsh
word: hashnod