Tag — Defs

01 n. Any slight appendage, as to an article of dress; something slight hanging loosely; specifically, a direction card, or label.

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.]
5.
A sheep of the first year.[Prov. Eng.]

Phrases & compounds

Tag and rag — the lowest sort; the rabble.

02 v. t. To fit with, or as with, a tag or tags.

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.
3.
To follow closely after; esp., to follow and touch in the game of tag. See Tag, a play. See: Tag

03 v. i. To follow closely, as it were an appendage; -- often with after; as, to tag after a person.

1.
To follow closely, as it were an appendage; -- often with after; as, to tag after a person.

04 n. A child's play in which one runs after and touches another, and then runs away to avoid being touched.

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A child's play in which one runs after and touches another, and then runs away to avoid being touched.