hashtag — meaning in English

English meaning

• hash noun A dish of chopped meat and vegetables (often potatoes) fried together.
• hashtag noun A word or phrase preceded by a # sign, used to tag and group posts on social media.

Senses

hashtag is used for these senses in English:

• hash (typography) The # symbol (octothorpe, pound).
• hashtag (Internet) A metadata tag, signaled by a preceding hash sign (#), used to label content. [from 2007]

hash — full definition

1. noun A dish of chopped meat and vegetables (often potatoes) fried together.
2. noun A confused, jumbled mess.
3. noun The # symbol.
4. noun In computing, the fixed-length code produced by feeding data through a hash function.
5. noun Informal short form of hashish.

hashtag — full definition

1. noun A word or phrase preceded by a # sign, used to tag and group posts on social media.
2. verb To label a post with a hashtag.

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