tag

noun

1. Physical appendage.

   “He has a tag hung on his bag.”

2. Physical appendage.
3. Physical appendage.
4. Physical appendage.
5. Physical appendage.
6. Physical appendage.
7. Physical appendage.
8. Physical appendage.

   “For upon the like Proclamation there, they all came in, both tag and rag”

9. Last nonphysical appendage.
10. Last nonphysical appendage.

    “Often, the tag punctuates the "we're all in this together" theme and is topped with a laugh.”

11. Last nonphysical appendage.
12. (informal)Nonphysical label.

    “Seems here like Russ would be speaking. You could use a tag here.”

    “If you want to start with talk, stick a tag in right away”

    “You could combine these two paragraphs, I think, and rewrite to lose the tag portion of the third sentence.”

13. Nonphysical label.

    “The <title> tag provides a title for the Web page.”

    “The <sarcasm> tag conveys sarcasm in Internet slang.”

14. Nonphysical label.

    “I want to add genre and artist tags to the files in my music collection.”

15. (US)Identity.

    “The subwoofer in the trunk was so loud, it vibrated the tag like an aluminum can.”

16. (slang)Identity.

    “What’s your tag?”

17. (uncountable)Involving being tagged physically.
18. Involving being tagged physically.

    “The tag was applied at second for the final out.”

19. Signature.
20. (slang)Signature.

    “There is a hierarchy of sorts: a throw-up can go over a tag, a piece over a throw-up, and a burner over a piece.”

21. A type of cardboard.
22. A sheep in its first year.

    “After being weaned, the ram or wedder lamb is sometimes termed hog, hoggit, or tag, during the whole of the first year”

23. A decoration drawn over some Hebrew letters in Jewish scrolls, especially in Stam style.
24. (abbreviation, alt-of, initialism)Initialism of tree-adjoining grammar.
25. (abbreviation, acronym, alt-of)Acronym of touch and go.

verb

1. (transitive)To label (something).
2. (transitive)To mark (something) with one's graffiti tag.
3. (transitive)To remove dung tags from a sheep.

   “Regularly tag the rear ends of your sheep.”

4. (colloquial, transitive)To hit the ball hard.

   “He really tagged that ball.”

5. (slang, transitive, vulgar)to have sex with someone (especially a man of a woman)

   “Steve is dying to tag Angie from chemistry class.”

6. (transitive)To put a runner out by touching them with the ball or the ball in a gloved hand.

   “He tagged the runner for the out.”

7. (transitive)To mark with a tag (metadata for classification).

   “I am tagging my music files by artist and genre.”

8. (Internet, transitive)To attach the name of (a user) to a posted message so that they are linked from the post and possibly sent a notification.

   “One side wants to demonstrate a higher level of street knowledge and openly denounces the distorting lens of Instagram dissings; the other embraces the medium's branding affordances by sending “clout” to a third-party ally, while at the same time avoiding tagging the opponent.”

9. To follow closely, accompany, tag along.

   “A tall young man came striding through the park along the path near which she sat. Behind him tagged a boy carrying a suit-case.”

10. (transitive)To catch and touch (a player in the game of tag).
11. (transitive)To fit with, or as if with, a tag or tags.

    “He learned to make long-tagged thread laces.”

    “His courteous host […] / Tags every sentence with some fawning word.”

12. (transitive)To fasten; to attach.

    “a. 1751, Henry St John, 1st Viscount Bolingbroke, an essay they began to tag their law with the scraps of philofophy”

13. (Internet, slang, transitive)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.

    “He keeps tagging my mobs and I miss out on all the drops.”

    “I can fight her for you, but you have to tag her if you want the achievement.”

14. (transitive)To repeat (the ending of a song); to play a tag

adj

1. Tight (inclined to play only strong starting hands and fold otherwise) and aggressive (inclined to raise often).