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TAG
/tæɡ/
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What does TAG mean?
noun
- A small label.
- A skin tag, an excrescence of skin.
- A dangling lock of sheep's wool, matted with dung; a dung tag.
More meanings (36)
noun
- Any slight appendage, as to an article of dress; something slight hanging loosely.
- A metallic binding, tube, or point, at the end of a string, or lace, to stiffen it.
- Any short peptide sequence artificially attached to proteins mostly in order to help purify, solubilize or visualize these proteins.
- Something mean and paltry; the rabble, originally refer to rag as torn cloth.
- The last line (or last two lines) of a song's chorus that is repeated to indicate the end of the song.
- The last scene of a TV program, often focusing on the program's subplot.
- The end, or catchword, of an actor's speech; cue.
- (informal) An attribution in narrated dialogue (eg, "he said") or attributed words (e.g. "he thought").
- A piece of markup representing an element in a markup language.
- A keyword, term, or phrase associated with or assigned to data, media, and/or information enabling keyword-based classification; often used to categorize content.
- A vehicle number plate; a medal bearing identification data (animals, soldiers).
- (slang) A person's name.
- A game, especially for children on playgrounds, in which one player (known as "it") attempts to touch another, who then becomes "it"; any similar game of chasing and trying to reach, touch, shoot, or label other players.
- An instance of touching the baserunner with the ball or the ball in a gloved hand to rule him "out."
- Signature.
- (slang) Graffiti in the form of a stylized signature particular to the artist.
- A type of cardboard.
- A sheep in its first year.
- A decoration drawn over some Hebrew letters in Jewish scrolls, especially in Stam style.
- Initialism of tree-adjoining grammar.
- Acronym of touch and go.
verb
- To label (something).
- To mark (something) with one's graffiti tag.
- To remove dung tags from a sheep.
- To hit the ball hard.
- To put a runner out by touching them with the ball or the ball in a gloved hand.
- To mark with a tag (metadata for classification).
- To attach the name of (a user) to a posted message so that they are linked from the post and possibly sent a notification.
- To follow closely, accompany, tag along.
- To catch and touch (a player in the game of tag).
- To fit with, or as if with, a tag or tags.
- To fasten; to attach.
- (slang) To make contact with an enemy, usually by attacking it before other players do, to establish exclusive or partial eligibility for loot, experience points achievements, etc.
- To repeat (the ending of a song); to play a tag
- (slang, vulgar) to have sex with someone (especially a man of a woman)
adjective
- Tight (inclined to play only strong starting hands and fold otherwise) and aggressive (inclined to raise often).
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IPA pronunciation
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See this word in context.
The chaser tries to tag the runners before they can "get home," or to a given place.
In what is known as "Cross Tag," the boy who starts the game tags another, who at once starts in pursuit.
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Dr. MacRae has introduced morning and evening exercises, and a glass of milk and a game of tag in the middle of school hours.
It was a crisp autumn evening, just cold enough to make one glad to quit playing tag in the yard, and retreat into the kitchen.
“Elnora, fasten up that tag of hair over your left ear. These bushes muss you so you remind me of a sheep poking its nose through a hedge fence.”