4 entries under this word

Tag

Tăg, n.

noun

n. [Allied to tack, q. v.]

A metallic point put to the end of a string.
Hence, any slight appendage, as to an article of dress; specifically, a direction-card, or label.
The end, or catch-word, of an actor’s speech; cue. Simmonds.
Something mean and paltry; the rabble. [Low.]

Will you hence Before the tag return? Shak. 5. A young sheep of the first year. [Prov. Eng.] Halliwell.

Tăg, v. t.

verbtransitive

v. t. [imp. & p. p. TAGGED; p. pr. & vb. n. TAGGING.] 1. To fit with a point or points. He learned to make long-tagged thread laces. Macaulay. 2. To fit, as one thing to another; to append to. His courteous host Tags every sentence with some fawning word. Dryden. 3. To join, or fasten.

Tăg, v. i.

verbintransitive

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

Tăg, n.

noun

n. [Prov. Eng. tag, to follow closely after, allied to tack, to fasten, attach. See supra.] A play in which one person runs after and touches another, and then in turn runs away to avoid being touched.