hashtag
noun
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Hashtags are an everyday part of Internet culture, thanks to social media. Originally designed for categorizing posts (i.e., tagging them) on Twitter, hashtags now commonly also supplement or comment on whatever text or image they accompany. The “hash” in hashtag is short for hash mark, a term for what we also call a pound sign or, if you want to apply the word-nerdiest designation, an octothorpe. Hash in this case is probably an alteration of hatch, a term for the lines artists sometimes use to add shading to a drawing. #WordNerdery
Examples of hashtag in a Sentence
Stepheny Price, FOXNews.com, 27 Mar. 2025
Buyers had a chance to obtain all kinds of memorabilia, including smaller bird logos and hashtag signs, in addition to office furniture.
—Michael Kan, PCMAG, 21 Mar. 2025
With no central authority, governance is in the hands of fediverse members, who use hashtags like #fediblock to loosely coordinate.
—Aram Sinnreich, The Conversation, 12 Mar. 2025
Around 2021, the hashtag #CycleSyncing started gaining popularity on TikTok.
—New Atlas, 8 Mar. 2025
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“Hashtag.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/hashtag. Accessed 31 Mar. 2025.
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