tag

Meaning

Noun

1. Physical appendage.
2. Physical appendage.
3. Physical appendage.
4. Physical appendage.
5. Physical appendage.
6. Physical appendage.
7. Physical appendage.
8. Last nonphysical appendage.
9. Last nonphysical appendage.
10. Last nonphysical appendage.
11. (informal) Nonphysical label.
12. Nonphysical label.
13. Nonphysical label.
14. Identity.
15. (slang) Identity.
16. Involving being tagged physically.
17. Involving being tagged physically.
18. Signature.
19. Signature.
20. A type of cardboard.
21. A sheep in its first year.

Verb

1. To label (something).
2. To mark (something) with one's graffiti tag.
3. To remove dung tags from a sheep.
4. (colloquial) To hit the ball hard.
5. (slang) to have sex with someone (especially a man of a woman)
6. To put a runner out by touching them with the ball or the ball in a gloved hand.
7. To mark with a tag (metadata for classification).
8. To attach the name of (a user) to a posted message so that they are linked from the post and possibly sent a notification.
9. To follow closely, accompany, tag along.
10. To catch and touch (a player in the game of tag).
11. To fit with, or as if with, a tag or tags.
12. To fasten; to attach.

Pronounced as (IPA)

/tæɡ/

Etymology

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.