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HTH

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FORCE: Attention EconomyUNIVERSE: Internet SlangCLUSTER: chat_abbreviations

a closing initialism offering an answer or advice in the hope that it was useful, common in help forums and support threads. The same letters also name the helix-turn-helix protein motif in biochemistry.

REAL-WORLD EXAMPLE

""Try restarting the router first, HTH.""

LORE & ORIGIN

Wiktionary lists it as English internet slang and text-messaging initialism for hoping an answer was useful, and separately lists the biochemistry sense. It gives no etymology or date.

FIRST SEEN

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PEAK ERA (EDITORIAL)

1990s-2010s

CURRENT STATUS

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