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Tag   /tæg/   Listen
Tag

noun
1.
A label written or printed on paper, cardboard, or plastic that is attached to something to indicate its owner, nature, price, etc..  Synonym: ticket.
2.
A label associated with something for the purpose of identification.
3.
A small piece of cloth or paper.  Synonyms: rag, shred, tag end, tatter.
4.
A game in which one child chases the others; the one who is caught becomes the next chaser.
5.
(sports) the act of touching a player in a game (which changes their status in the game).
verb
(past & past part. tagged; pres. part. tagging)
1.
Attach a tag or label to.  Synonyms: label, mark.
2.
Touch a player while he is holding the ball.
3.
Provide with a name or nickname.
4.
Go after with the intent to catch.  Synonyms: chase, chase after, dog, give chase, go after, tail, track, trail.  "The dog chased the rabbit"
5.
Supply (blank verse or prose) with rhymes.



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"Tag" Quotes from Famous Books



... by the flowering vegetation. I wanted to see the home life of these animals, but was disappointed because of the attention I had attracted. When first discovered the does were browsing with heads down and the kids were playing tag with one another, every once in a while spreading the white hair on their rumps and then lowering the "white flag" again, they apparently used it as a Morse signal system of their own. But now they were all alert and facing me; the bucks had seen something and ...
— The Black Wolf Pack • Dan Beard
... He knew the scientific points of boxing, and he applied them. His eye was quick and sure. His reach was whole inches longer than his opponent's. His strength was that of two ordinary men. What did it avail him? He was like an agile athlete in the circus playing tag with a black panther. He was like a child striking futilely at a wavering butterfly. Sometimes this white-faced, laughing devil ducked under his arms. Sometimes a sidestep made his blows miss by the slightest fraction ...
— The Untamed • Max Brand
... your papa is out until six. If it's a customer, remember the first asking-price is the two middle figures on the tag, and the last asking-price is the two outside figures. See once, with your papa out to buy your little brother his birthday present, and your mother in a cake, if you can't make a sale for ...
— Humoresque - A Laugh On Life With A Tear Behind It • Fannie Hurst
... witnessed by (among others) Henry Lawrence, 'servant' or clerk to Robert Andrewes, the scrivener who drew the deeds, and Lawrence's seal, bearing his initials 'H. L.,' was stamped in each case on the parchment-tag, across the head of which Shakespeare wrote his name. In all three documents—the two indentures and the mortgage-deed—Shakespeare is described as 'of Stratford-on-Avon, in the Countie of Warwick, Gentleman.' There is no reason to suppose that he acquired the ...
— A Life of William Shakespeare - with portraits and facsimiles • Sidney Lee
... as soon tag Satan, only I've just got to do it." But his face changed when he turned to Marjie. "Little girl, I overheard the lady. Lovely spirit that! I just can't help dancin' attendance on it. But, Marjie, I've come up here, knowin' ...
— The Price of the Prairie - A Story of Kansas • Margaret Hill McCarter


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