tag

noun25

1. •
   a little card on something that shows facts about it, such as its price or its owner

   • He has a tag hung on his bag.
2. •
   Nonphysical label.
3. •
   A piece of markup representing an element in a markup language.

   • The <title> tag provides a title for the Web page.
   • The <sarcasm> tag conveys sarcasm in Internet slang.
4. •
   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.
5. •
   (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.
6. •
   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.
7. •
   Signature.
8. •
   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. — 2011
9. •
   (slang) A person's name.

   • What’s your tag?
10. •
    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.
11. •
    Physical appendage.
12. •
    A skin tag, an excrescence of skin.
13. •
    A dangling lock of sheep's wool, matted with dung; a dung tag.
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 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. — 2006
17. •
    The end, or catchword, of an actor's speech; cue.
18. •
    An attribution in narrated dialogue (eg, "he said") or attributed words (e.g. "he thought").
19. •
    The last line (or last two lines) of a song's chorus that is repeated to indicate the end of the song.
20. •
    Last nonphysical appendage.
21. •
    Any short peptide sequence artificially attached to proteins mostly in order to help purify, solubilize or visualize these proteins.
22. •
    A type of cardboard.
23. •
    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 — 1807
24. •
    A decoration drawn over some Hebrew letters in Jewish scrolls, especially in Stam style.
25. •
    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 — 1596

verb14

1. •
   To label (something).
2. •
   To mark (something) with one's graffiti tag.
3. •
   To mark with a tag (metadata for classification).

   • I am tagging my music files by artist and genre.
4. •
   To fit with, or as if with, a tag or tags.

   • He learned to make long-tagged thread laces. — 1911
5. •
   (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.
6. •
   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. •
   To catch and touch (a player in the game of tag).
8. •
   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. — 1906
9. •
   (informal) To hit the ball hard.

   • He really tagged that ball.
10. •
    To fasten; to attach.

    • they began to tag their law with the scraps of philofophy — 1751
11. •
    (Internet, slang) 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.
12. •
    (slang, vulgar) to have sex with someone (especially a man of a woman)

    • Steve is dying to tag Angie from chemistry class.
13. •
    To repeat (the ending of a song); to play a tag
14. •
    To remove dung tags from a sheep.

    • Regularly tag the rear ends of your sheep.

adjective1

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

noun2

1. •
   Acronym of touch and go.
2. •
   Initialism of tree-adjoining grammar.