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slashtag

noun

Etymology

From slash + tag, to rhyme with hashtag.

  1. inherited from tagge — “small piece hanging from a garment”
  2. compounded as slashtag — “slash + tag”

Definitions

  1. A tag in a posted message, starting with the / symbol and serving as a keyword to specify…

    A tag in a posted message, starting with the / symbol and serving as a keyword to specify a topic or metadata.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for slashtag. 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