blacktag
blacktag noun: a hashtag used by, or in support of, the black community.
Noun
blacktag (plural blacktags)
- 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.2016, Virginia Heffernan, Magic and Loss: The Internet as Art, page 106
- Tweets often include the use of racialized hashtags referred to as “Blacktags” that help broadcast these performances across the Twitter universe.2016, Kofi Lomotey, Pamela Braboy Jackson, Muna Adem, People of Color in the United States
Forms of blacktag
| plural | blacktags |
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Origin of blacktag
Blend of black + hashtag.
Questions about blacktag
- What does blacktag mean?
- Blacktag means a hashtag used by, or in support of, the black community.
- What part of speech is blacktag?
- Blacktag is a noun.
- What is the plural of blacktag?
- The plural of blacktag is blacktags.
Words near blacktag in the dictionary
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