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hashtagging

hashtagging is the present participle and gerund of hashtag.

Meaning of hashtag

Verb

hashtag (third-person singular simple present hashtags, present participle hashtagging, simple past and past participle hashtagged)

  1. (Internet, ambitransitive) To label (a message) with a hashtag.
    • The photo-sharing site was riddled with fake accounts that liked, followed and hashtagged out the wazoo. Then came the great “Instagram Rapture,” Instagram’s pledge last December to clean out the fake accounts and do “everything possible to keep Instagram free from the fake and spammy accounts that...2015 July 2, Julia Carpenter, “Can we ever beat the bots? Not on Instagram.”, in The Washington Post

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Questions about hashtagging

What is hashtagging the present participle and gerund of?
Hashtagging is the present participle and gerund of hashtag.

Words near hashtagging in the dictionary

  1. hashtag
  2. hashtaggable
  3. hashtagged
  4. hashtagger
  5. hashtaggers
  6. hashtagging
  7. hashtagification
  8. hashtagified
  9. hashtagifies
  10. hashtagify
  11. hashtagifying

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Adapted from Wiktionary: hashtagging (page history and authors); hashtag (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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