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^(key): /ˈhæʃˌtæɡ/, enPR: hăsh'tăg

• Audio (Southern England)

  (file)

• Audio (US)

  (file)

Noun

hashtag (plural hashtags)

1. (Internet) A metadata tag, signaled by a preceding hash sign (#), used to label content.
   • 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.

Derived terms

• bashtag
• cashtag
• hashtivism

Descendants

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

Translations

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)

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

Derived terms

• hashtaggable
• hashtagger

References

Further reading

• hashtag on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Danish

Etymology

Borrowed from English hashtag.

Noun

hashtag

1. (Internet) hashtag

Declension

French

Etymology

Borrowed from English hashtag.

Pronunciation

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

• Audio

  (file)

Noun

hashtag m (plural hashtags)

1. (Internet) hashtag

   Synonyms: mot-clic, mot-dièse

Derived terms

• hashtaguer

Related terms

• croisillon

Further reading

• “hashtag”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé , 2012.

Hungarian

Etymology

From English hashtag.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key):
• Hyphenation: hash‧tag

Noun

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.

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

Declension

Polish

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English hashtag.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈxaʂ.tak/

• Audio

  (file)

• Rhymes: -aʂtak
• Syllabification: hash‧tag

Noun

hashtag m inan

1. (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

Noun

hashtag f or m (plural hashtags)

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

Spanish

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English hashtag.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈxaʃtaɡ/
• Rhymes: -aʃtaɡ

Noun

hashtag m (plural hashtags)

1. 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.