Collins English-English Dictionary

tag [tæg]

1. 1. n a piece or strip of paper, plastic, leather, etc, for attaching to something by one end as a mark or label

   a price tag

2. 2. n an electronic device worn, usually on the wrist or ankle, by an offender serving a noncustodial sentence, which monitors the offender's whereabouts by means of a link to a central computer through the telephone system electronic tag

3. 3. n a small piece of material hanging from or loosely attached to a part or piece

4. 4. n a point of metal or other hard substance at the end of a cord, lace, etc, to prevent it from fraying and to facilitate threading

5. 5. n an epithet or verbal appendage, the refrain of a song, the moral of a fable, etc

6. 6. n a brief quotation, esp one in a foreign language

   his speech was interlarded with Horatian tags

7. 7. n [grammar] tag question a clause added on to another clause to invite the hearer's agreement or conversational cooperation. Tags are usually in the form of a question with a pronoun as subject, the antecedent of which is the subject of the main clause; as isn't it in the bread is on the table, isn't it?

8. 8. n a linguistic item added on to a sentence but not forming part of it, as John in are you there, John?

9. 9. n an ornamental flourish as at the end of a signature

10. 10. n the contrastingly coloured tip to an animal's tail

11. 11. n a matted lock of wool or hair

12. 12. n [angling] a strand of tinsel, wire, etc, tied to the body of an artificial fly

13. 13. n [slang] a graffito consisting of a nickname or personal symbol

14. 14. vb [mainly tr] to mark with a tag

15. 15. vb to monitor the whereabouts of (an offender) by means of an electronic tag

16. 16. vb to add or append as a tag

17. 17. vb to supply (prose or blank verse) with rhymes

18. 18. vi. [intr; usually foll by on or along] to trail (behind)

    many small boys tagged on behind the procession

19. 19. vi. to name or call (someone something)

    they tagged him Lanky

20. 20. vi. to cut the tags of wool or hair from (an animal)

21. 21. vi. [slang] to paint one's tag on (a building, wall, etc)

22. 22. vi. [Etymology] C15: of uncertain origin; related to Swedish tagg point, perhaps also to tack¹

tag [tæg]

1. 1. n tig a children's game in which one player chases the others in an attempt to catch one of them who will then become the chaser

2. 2. n the act of tagging one's partner in tag wrestling

3. 3. n [modifier] denoting or relating to a wrestling contest between two teams of two wrestlers, in which only one from each team may be in the ring at one time. The contestant outside the ring may change places with his team-mate inside the ring after touching his hand

4. 4. vt. [tr] to catch (another child) in the game of tag

5. 5. vt. (in tag wrestling) to touch the hand of (one's partner)

6. 6. vt. [Etymology] C18: perhaps from tag¹