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//tæɡ// adj, noun, verb, slang

Definitions

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

    "He has a tag hung on his bag."

  2. 2
    A decoration drawn over some Hebrew letters in Jewish scrolls, especially in Stam style.
  3. 3
    Initialism of tree-adjoining grammar. abbreviation, alt-of, initialism
  4. 4
    (sports) the act of touching a player in a game (which changes their status in the game) wordnet
  5. 5
    Physical appendage.; A small label.
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  1. 6
    Acronym of touch and go. abbreviation, acronym, alt-of
  2. 7
    a game in which one child chases the others; the one who is caught becomes the next chaser wordnet
  3. 8
    Physical appendage.; A skin tag, an excrescence of skin.
  4. 9
    a small piece of cloth wordnet
  5. 10
    Physical appendage.; A dangling lock of sheep's wool, matted with dung; a dung tag.
  6. 11
    a label written or printed on paper, cardboard, or plastic that is attached to something to indicate its owner, nature, price, etc. wordnet
  7. 12
    Physical appendage.; Any slight appendage, as to an article of dress; something slight hanging loosely.
  8. 13
    a label associated with something for the purpose of identification wordnet
  9. 14
    Physical appendage.; A metallic binding, tube, or point, at the end of a string, or lace, to stiffen it.
  10. 15
    Physical appendage.; Any short peptide sequence artificially attached to proteins mostly in order to help purify, solubilize or visualize these proteins.
  11. 16
    Physical appendage.; Something mean and paltry; the rabble, originally refer to rag as torn cloth.

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

  12. 17
    Last nonphysical appendage.; The last line (or last two lines) of a song's chorus that is repeated to indicate the end of the song.
  13. 18
    Last nonphysical appendage.; The last scene of a TV program, often focusing on the program's subplot.

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

  14. 19
    Last nonphysical appendage.; The end, or catchword, of an actor's speech; cue.
  15. 20
    Nonphysical label.; An attribution in narrated dialogue (eg, "he said") or attributed words (e.g. "he thought"). informal

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

  16. 21
    Nonphysical label.; A piece of markup representing an element in a markup language.

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

  17. 22
    Nonphysical label.; A keyword, term, or phrase associated with or assigned to data, media, and/or information enabling keyword-based classification; often used to categorize content.

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

  18. 23
    Identity.; A vehicle number plate; a medal bearing identification data (animals, soldiers). US

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

  19. 24
    Identity.; A person's name. slang

    "What’s your tag?"

  20. 25
    Involving being tagged physically.; 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. uncountable
  21. 26
    Involving being tagged physically.; An instance of touching the baserunner with the ball or the ball in a gloved hand to rule him "out."

    "The tag was applied at second for the final out."

  22. 27
    Signature.
  23. 28
    Signature.; Graffiti in the form of a stylized signature particular to the artist.

    "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."

  24. 29
    A type of cardboard.
  25. 30
    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"

Verb
  1. 1
    To label (something). transitive
  2. 2
    provide with a name or nickname wordnet
  3. 3
    To mark (something) with one's graffiti tag. transitive
  4. 4
    attach a tag or label to wordnet
  5. 5
    To remove dung tags from a sheep. transitive

    "Regularly tag the rear ends of your sheep."

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  1. 6
    touch a player while they are holding the ball wordnet
  2. 7
    To hit the ball hard. colloquial, transitive

    "He really tagged that ball."

  3. 8
    supply (blank verse or prose) with rhymes wordnet
  4. 9
    to have sex with someone (especially a man of a woman) slang, transitive, vulgar

    "Steve is dying to tag Angie from chemistry class."

  5. 10
    go after with the intent to catch wordnet
  6. 11
    To put a runner out by touching them with the ball or the ball in a gloved hand. transitive

    "He tagged the runner for the out."

  7. 12
    To mark with a tag (metadata for classification). transitive

    "I am tagging my music files by artist and genre."

  8. 13
    To attach the name of (a user) to a posted message so that they are linked from the post and possibly sent a notification. Internet, transitive

    "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. 14
    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. 15
    To catch and touch (a player in the game of tag). transitive
  11. 16
    To fit with, or as if with, a tag or tags. transitive

    "He learned to make long-tagged thread laces."

  12. 17
    To fasten; to attach. transitive

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

  13. 18
    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. Internet, slang, transitive

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

  14. 19
    To repeat (the ending of a song); to play a tag transitive

Etymology

Etymology 1

From Middle English tagge (“small piece hanging from a garment”), probably of North Germanic origin. Compare Norwegian tagg (“point; prong; barb; tag”), Swedish tagg (“thorn; prickle; tine”), Icelandic tág (“a willow-twig”). Compare also tack.

Etymology 2

From Middle English tagge (“small piece hanging from a garment”), probably of North Germanic origin. Compare Norwegian tagg (“point; prong; barb; tag”), Swedish tagg (“thorn; prickle; tine”), Icelandic tág (“a willow-twig”). Compare also tack.

Etymology 3

Borrowed from Aramaic תגא (taga, “crown”). Doublet of taj.

Etymology 4

Acronym of tight-aggressive.

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