something that you say, especially when writing on the internet, to show that you are grateful to someone for giving you information
hat tip to:
Hat tip to Twitterfollower DJSerQet for the reco!
Synonyms and related words
Ways of saying thank you
hat tip
shout-out
thank you
Synonyms and related words
Praise and admiration
praise
admiration
recognition
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hat tip
noun countable
US /ˈhæt ˌtɪp/
Other entries for this word
tip your hatphrase
tip your hat to someonephrase
or h/t
Word Forms
singular
hat tip
plural
hat tips
DEFINITIONS1
1
something that you say, especially when writing on the internet, to show that you are grateful to someone for giving you information
hat tip to:
Hat tip to Twitterfollower DJSerQet for the reco!
Synonyms and related words
Ways of saying thank you
hat tip
shout-out
thank you
Synonyms and related words
Praise and admiration
praise
admiration
recognition
Featured as a BuzzWord!
Use of the expression hat tip as a form of acknowledgement in online contexts first began to appear in the early 2000s, and can be thought of as one implementation of the wider concept of netiquette, a polite way of communicating with other people when using the Internet.