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Tag Meaning & Definition
Tag Definition And Meaning

What's The Definition Of Tag?

[n] touching a player in a game
[n] one child chases the others; the one who is caught becomes the next chaser
[n] a small piece of cloth
[n] a label made of cardboard or plastic or metal
[v] provide with a name or nickname
[v] attach a tag or label to; "label these bottles"
[v] as in baseball: touch a player while he is holding the ball
[v] supply with rhymes, as of blank verse or prose
[v] go after with the intent to catch

Synonyms | Synonyms for Tag: chase | chase after | dog | go after | label | mark | rag | shred | tag end | tail | tatter | track | trail

Related Terms | Find terms related to Tag:

See Also | attach | badge | ball | baseball | baseball game | calibrate | call | chase away | child's game | code | dispel | dog tag | drive away | drive off | drive out | follow | hound | hunt | label | mark down | mark up | nab | name | name tag | piece of cloth | piece of material | pine-tar rag | point | price tag | pursue | quest | rhyme | rime | run down | run off | tag | tag along | touch | touch | touching | trace | turn back

Tag In Webster's Dictionary

\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.

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