hashtag
[hash-tag]Digital Technology
- (on social media websites) a word or phrase preceded by a hash mark (#), used within a message to identify a keyword or topic of interest and facilitate a search for it: The hashtag #sandiegofire was used to help coordinate an emergency response to the fire.
- a hash mark used in this way.
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- to add a hashtag to (a word, topic, or message): Someone on Twitter just hashtagged the film festival.
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Origin of hashtag
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Examples from the Web for hashtag
Contemporary Examples
Michelle Obama tweeting a hashtag is somehow cause for outrage.
Who even needs a court of law, let alone victim testimony, now that we have the hashtag?
The hashtag has been used to label general rants about people getting naked for attention.
Go home and use that hashtag to let people know about the story.
And briefly, it seemed like a hashtag triumph—pretty much everyone, everywhere, was outraged.
hashtag
- (on the Twitter website) a word or phrase preceded by a hash mark, used to denote the topic of a post
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