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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



... twenty American organizations here—big, little, rag-tag, and bobtail. When we declared war, every one of 'em proceeded to prepare for some sort of celebration. There would have been an epidemic of Fourth-of-July oratory all over the town—before we'd done anything—Americans spouting over the edges and killing Kruger with their mouths. I got ...
— The Life and Letters of Walter H. Page, Volume II • Burton J. Hendrick
... much amused by three chipmunks, who seemed to be engaged in some kind of game. It looked very much as if they were playing tag. Round and round they would go, first one taking the lead, then another, all good-natured and gleeful as schoolboys. There is one thing about a chipmunk that is peculiar: he is never more than one ...
— Squirrels and Other Fur-Bearers • John Burroughs
... read this disingenuous farrago of insinuation even now without a strong sense of moral contempt. But vengeance was coming, and before many years were over his head Freeman had occasion to remember the Hornfinn tag: ...
— The Life of Froude • Herbert Paul
... likely to send home during and after the Conquest things that were odd and quaint to them and which would be invaluable to us now. As it is, the time of the Nancy Congress of Americanistes has been too much occupied with efforts to make the ancient inhabitants of this country a tag to one of the numerous Asian migrations. All such attempts have been failures, for the simple reason that we do not have facts enough to prove any theory. Still they have done some good work, and though the ...
— The Galaxy - Vol. 23, No. 1 • Various
... 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 ...
— O Henry Memorial Award Prize Stories of 1919 • Various


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