Definition of "tag"

tag¹

/tæɡ/

noun
plural tags
1. A small label.
2. (playground games, uncountable) A children's chasing game in which one player (known as "it") attempts to touch another, who then becomes "it".
3. A skin tag, an excrescence of skin.
4. A type of cardboard.
5. Graffiti in the form of a stylized signature particular to the artist.
  Quotations
  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.
  2011, Scape Martinez, Graff 2: Next Level Graffiti Techniques, page 124
6. A dangling lock of sheep's wool, matted with dung; a dung tag.
7. (informal, authorship) An attribution in narrated dialogue (eg, "he said") or attributed words (e.g. "he thought").
  Quotations
  Seems here like Russ would be speaking. You could use a tag here.
  , michael, alt.fiction.original]‎ (Usenet)
  If you want to start with talk, stick a tag in right away
  , Jane MacDonald, alt.fiction.original‎ (Usenet)
  You could combine these two paragraphs, I think, and rewrite to lose the tag portion of the third sentence.
  , [email protected], alt.fiction.original‎ (Usenet)
8. (music) The last line (or last two lines) of a song's chorus that is repeated to indicate the end of the song.
9. (television) The last scene of a TV program, often focusing on the program's subplot.
  Quotations
  Often, the tag punctuates the "we're all in this together" theme and is topped with a laugh.
  2006, Stephen V. Duncan, A Guide to Screenwriting Success, page 300
10. (chiefly US) A vehicle number plate; a medal bearing identification data (animals, soldiers).
11. (baseball) An instance of touching the baserunner with the ball or the ball in a gloved hand to rule him "out."
12. (computing) A piece of markup representing an element in a markup language.
13. (computing) A keyword, term, or phrase associated with or assigned to data, media, and/or information enabling keyword-based classification; often used to categorize content.
14. Any slight appendage, as to an article of dress; something slight hanging loosely.
15. A metallic binding, tube, or point, at the end of a string, or lace, to stiffen it.
16. The end, or catchword, of an actor's speech; cue.
17. Something mean and paltry; the rabble.
  Quotations
  For upon the like Proclamation there, they all came in, both tag and rag
  1596 (date written; published 1633), Edmund Spenser, A Vewe of the Present State of Irelande […], Dublin: […] Societie of Stationers, […]; republished as A View of the State of Ireland […] (Ancient Irish Histories), Dublin: […] Society of Stationers, […] Hibernia Press, […] [b]y John Morrison, 1809,
18. A sheep in its first year.
  Quotations
  After being weaned, the ram or wedder lamb is sometimes termed hog, hoggit, or tag, during the whole of the first year
  1807, The Complete Farmer, or, General Dictionary of Agriculture and Husbandry
19. (biochemistry) Any short peptide sequence artificially attached to proteins mostly in order to help purify, solubilize or visualize these proteins.
20. (slang) A person's name.
verb
third-person singular simple present tags, present participle tagging, simple past and past participle tagged
1. (transitive) To label (something).
2. (transitive) To mark (something) with one's graffiti tag.
3. (transitive) To remove dung tags from a sheep.
4. (transitive, baseball, colloquial) To hit the ball hard.
5. (transitive, vulgar, slang, 1990s) to have sex with someone (especially a man of a woman)
6. (transitive, baseball) To put a runner out by touching them with the ball or the ball in a gloved hand.
7. (transitive, computing) To mark with a tag (metadata for classification).
8. (transitive, Internet) To attach the name of (a user) to a posted message so that they are linked from the post and possibly sent a notification.
  Quotations
  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.
  2021, Julie B. Wiest, Theorizing Criminality and Policing in the Digital Media Age, page 82
9. To follow closely, accompany, tag along.
  Quotations
  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.
  1906 April, O. Henry [pseudonym; William Sydney Porter], “By Courier”, in The Four Million, New York, N.Y.: McClure, Phillips & Co
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.
  Quotations
  He learned to make long-tagged thread laces.
  1911, Thomas Babington Macaulay, “Bunyan, John”, in 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica‎
  His courteous host […] / Tags every sentence with some fawning word.
  1693, Decimus Junius Juvenalis, John Dryden, transl., “[The Satires of Decimus Junius Juvenalis.] The Eighth Satyr”, in The Satires of Decimus Junius Juvenalis. Translated into English Verse. […] Together with the Satires of Aulus Persius Flaccus. […], London: Printed for Jacob Tonson […]
12. To fasten; to attach.
  Quotations
  they began to tag their law with the scraps of philofophy
  a. 1751, Henry St John, 1st Viscount Bolingbroke, an essay

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noun
plural tagin
1. A decoration drawn over some Hebrew letters in Jewish scrolls.

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