TAG

n. v.

11 definitions — Webster’s Dictionary (1828)


1.
n.

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

2.
n.

A metallic binding, tube, or point, at the end of a string, or lace, to stiffen it.

3.
n.

The end, or catchword, of an actor's speech; cue.

4.
n.

Something mean and paltry; the rabble. [Obs.] Tag and rag, the lowest sort; the rabble. Holinshed.

5.
n.

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

6.
n.

A sale of usually used items (such as furniture, clothing, household items or bric-a-brac), conducted by one or a small group of individuals, at a location which is not a normal retail establishment.

7.
v.

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.

8.
v.

To join; to fasten; to attach. Bolingbroke.

9.
v.

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

10.
v.

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

11.
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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