Crossword Dictionary

What's The Definition Of Tag?

\Tag\, n. [Probably akin to tack a small nail; cf. Sw. tagg a prickle, point, tooth.] 1. Any slight appendage, as to an article of dress; something slight hanging loosely; specifically, a direction card, or label. 2. A metallic binding, tube, or point, at the end of a string, or lace, to stiffen it. 3. The end, or catchword, of an actor's speech; cue. 4. Something mean and paltry; the rabble. [Obs.] {Tag and rag}, the lowest sort; the rabble. --Holinshed. 5. A sheep of the first year. [Prov. Eng.] --Halliwell.
\Tag\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Tagged}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Tagging}.] 1. To fit with, or as with, a tag or tags. He learned to make long-tagged thread laces. --Macaulay. His courteous host . . . Tags every sentence with some fawning word. --Dryden. 2. To join; to fasten; to attach. --Bolingbroke. 3. To follow closely after; esp., to follow and touch in the game of tag. See {Tag}, a play.
\Tag\, v. i. To follow closely, as it were an appendage; -- often with after; as, to tag after a person.
\Tag\, n. [From {Tag}, v.; cf. {Tag}, an end.] A child's play in which one runs after and touches another, and then runs away to avoid being touched.