tag

noun tags

1. A small label. He has a tag hung on his bag.

   Similar: ticket

2. A skin tag, an excrescence of skin.
3. A dangling lock of sheep's wool, matted with dung; a dung tag.
4. Any slight appendage, as to an article of dress; something slight hanging loosely.
5. A metallic binding, tube, or point, at the end of a string, or lace, to stiffen it.
6. Any short peptide sequence artificially attached to proteins mostly in order to help purify, solubilize or visualize these proteins.
7. Something mean and paltry; rabble. For upon the like Proclamation there, they all came in, both tag and rag
8. The last line (or last two lines) of a song's chorus that is repeated to indicate the end of the song.
9. 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.

   Opposite: cold open

10. The end, or catchword, of an actor's speech; cue.
11. informal An attribution in narrated dialogue (eg, "he said") or attributed words (e.g. "he thought"). Seems here like Russ would be speaking. You could use a tag here.

    Similar: dialogue tag, speech tag, tag line

12. A piece of markup representing an element in a markup language. The <title> tag provides a title for the Web page.
13. 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.
14. US A vehicle number plate; a medal bearing identification data (animals, soldiers). The subwoofer in the trunk was so loud, it vibrated the tag like an aluminum can.
15. slang A person's name. What’s your tag?
16. uncountable 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.

    Similar: tips, it

17. 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.
18. Signature.
19. slang 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.
20. A type of cardboard.
21. 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

Similar: dobby, it, hit, tig, tiggy, tuggy, touch, catch, chase, tick, tip, had

verb tags · tagging · 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. 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.

   Opposite: untag

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

noun tagin · tagim

1. A decoration drawn over some Hebrew letters in Jewish scrolls, especially in Stam style.

Similar: dobby, it, hit, tig, tiggy, tuggy, touch, catch, chase, tick, tip, had

adjective more TAG · most TAG

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

Opposite: LAG

noun TAGs

1. abbreviation, initialism Initialism of tree-adjoining grammar
2. abbreviation, acronym Acronym of touch and go