#slang
Live, measured metrics for the hashtag #slang from the open social web. Every number carries a named source and the time it was fetched. Nothing is estimated.
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Day-by-day usage
measured · fosstodon.org (Mastodon public tags API) · fetched 2026-09-11 08:52 UTC31 uses by 11 unique accounts across the window. Real per-day counts, not estimates. Newest bar is today so far.
Related hashtags
measured · fosstodon.org (Mastodon public search API) · fetched 2026-09-11 08:52 UTCLive pulse
measured · fosstodon.org (Mastodon tag timeline) · fetched 2026-09-11 08:52 UTCEverything below is measured over the latest 40 public posts (spanning ~205 hours).
Posting hours (UTC) — busiest: 14:00
Languages: English (40)
Avg boosts / post: 2.3
Top of the latest posts
BELCH. All sorts of beer; that liquor being apt to cause eructation. A selection from Francis Grose’s “Dictionary Of The Vulgar Tongue” (1785) -- #books #literature #dictionaries #history #society #language #slang @histodons
LIGHT TROOPS. Lice; the light troops are in full march; the lice are crawling about. A selection from Francis Grose’s “Dictionary Of The Vulgar Tongue” (1785) -- #books #literature #dictionaries #history #society #language #slang @histodons
As for the etymology of the verb phrase 'dote on/dote upon': the term 'dote' has its origins in the late Middle English 'doten,' derived from the Old Norse word 'dota,' which means 'to fall or doze.' The transition to the meaning of showing
What “slang” means
Wiktionary · Wikipediaslang/sleɪŋ/
- nounLanguage outside of conventional usage and in the informal register.
- verbTo vocally abuse, or shout at.
Slang is a vocabulary of an informal register, common in everyday conversation but avoided in formal writing and speech. It also often refers to the language exclusively used by the members of particular in-groups in order to establish group identity, exclude outsiders, or both. The word itself came about in the 18th century and has been defined in multiple ways since its conception, with no single technical usage in linguistics.
“Slang” on Wikipedia (CC BY-SA) →#slang across platforms
every network with a public tag surfaceFollow #slang straight to each platform’s own tag page. Where a platform publishes open data we measure it above; the rest lock their numbers behind paid APIs, so we link rather than guess.
Every number above is measured from a named public API at the shown fetch time. Nothing is estimated or extrapolated. Platforms that lock their data behind paid APIs are not shown. Agents: the same numbers, as JSON, at /api/hashtags/slang