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. Physical appendage.
9. Last nonphysical appendage.
10. Last nonphysical appendage.
11. Last nonphysical appendage.
12. (informal) Nonphysical label.
13. Nonphysical label.
14. Nonphysical label.
15. (US) Identity.
16. (slang) Identity.
17. (uncountable) Involving being tagged physically.
18. Involving being tagged physically.
19. Signature.
20. Signature.
21. A type of cardboard.
22. A sheep in its first year.

Verb

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. (colloquial, transitive) To hit the ball hard.
5. (slang, transitive, vulgar) to have sex with someone (especially a man of a woman)
6. (transitive) To put a runner out by touching them with the ball or the ball in a gloved hand.
7. (transitive) To mark with a tag (metadata for classification).
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.
9. To follow closely, accompany, tag along.
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.
12. To fasten; to attach.

Opposite of

cold open, untag

Synonyms

label

🏷️

ticket

🎫

mark

tab

tally

dog

🐕

slip

tail

go after

note

track

sticker

chase after

trail

chase

tatter

sign

follow

badge

marking

rag

marker

append

tig

tag end

document

stamp

card

receipt

🧾

name

shred

give chase

flag

characteristic

bill

character

certificate

bear upon

appendage

cauterize

cauterise

entry

embossment

catkin

bake

adjoin

earmark

entitle

dust

cachet

Translations

etiqueta

🏷️

balise

etichetta

🏷️

Etikett

🏷️

Tag

étiquette

etiqueta

etiket

🏷️

cartellino

🏷️

etiket

🏷️

étiqueter

🏷️

Anhänger

Fangen

ετικέτα

label

Pronounced as (IPA)

/tæɡ/

Etymology

Inherited from Middle English: tagge

Cognate with Norwegian: tagg

Cognate with Swedish: tagg

Cognate with Icelandic: tág

In summary

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.