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blacktag

noun

Etymology

Blend of black + hashtag.

  1. inherited from tagge — “small piece hanging from a garment”
  2. formed as hashtag — “hash + tag”
  3. compounded as blacktag — “black + hashtag”

Definitions

  1. A hashtag used by, or in support of, the black community.

    • At the same time, Evans isn't exactly blown away by the genius of most “blacktags,” which he calls “Ghetto Comedy Voice.” He is slightly bored by them, pointing instead to “white cultural fingerprints” in Internet prose.
    • Tweets often include the use of racialized hashtags referred to as “Blacktags” that help broadcast these performances across the Twitter universe.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for blacktag. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA