Tag
Tag , noun
[Probably akin to tack a small nail; compare Swedish 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. [Obsolete]
Collocations (1)
Tag and rag , the lowest sort; the rabble. — Holinshed
5.
A sheep of the first year. [Provincial English] — Halliwell
Tag , transitive verb
1.
To fit with, or as with, a tag or tags.
He learned to make long-tagged thread laces.
His courteous host...
Tags every sentence with some fawning word.
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 , intransitive verb
To follow closely, as it were an appendage; -- often with after; as, to tag after a person.
Tag , noun
[From Tag, v.; compare Tag, an end.]
A child's play in which one runs after and touches another, and then runs away to avoid being touched.