tagged

tag ¹  (tg)

n.

1. A strip of leather, paper, metal, or plastic attached to something or hung from a wearer's neck to identify, classify, or label: sale tags on all coats and dresses.

2. The plastic or metal tip at the end of a shoelace.

3. The contrastingly colored tip of an animal's tail.

4. Sports A bright piece of feather, floss, or tinsel surrounding the shank of the hook on a fishing fly.

5.

a. A dirty, matted lock of wool.

b. A loose lock of hair.

6. A rag; a tatter.

7. A small, loose fragment: I heard only tags and snippets of what was being said.

8. An ornamental flourish, especially at the end of a signature.

9. A designation or an epithet, especially an unwelcome one: He did not take kindly to the tag of pauper.

10.

a. A brief quotation used in a discourse to give it an air of erudition or authority: Shakespearean tags.

b. A cliché, saw, or similar short, conventional idea used to embellish a discourse: These tags of wit and wisdom bore me.

c. The refrain or last lines of a song or poem.

d. The closing lines of a speech in a play; a cue.

11. Computer Science

a. A label assigned to identify data in memory.

b. A sequence of characters in a markup language used to provide information, such as formatting specifications, about a document.

12. Slang A graffito featuring a word or words, especially the author's name, rather than a picture: "Instead of a cursive linear tag, Super Kool painted his name along the exterior of a subway car in huge block pink and yellow letters" Eric Scigliano.

v. tagged, tag·ging, tags

v.tr.

1. To label, identify, or recognize with or as if with a tag: I tagged him as a loser. See Synonyms at mark¹.

2. To put a ticket on (a motor vehicle) for a traffic or parking violation.

3. To charge with a crime: The suspect was tagged for arson.

4. To add as an appendage to: tagged an extra paragraph on the letter.

5. To follow closely: Excited children tagged the circus parade to the end of its route.

6. To cut the tags from (sheep).

7. To add a taggant to: explosives that were tagged with coded microscopic bits of plastic.

8. To mark or vandalize (a surface) with graffiti: tagged the subway walls.

v.intr.

To follow after; accompany: tagged after me everywhere; insisted on tagging along.

---

[Middle English tagge, dangling piece of cloth on a garment, possibly of Scandinavian origin.]

---

tagger n.

---

tag ²  (tg)

n.

1. Games A children's game in which one player pursues the others until he or she is able to touch one of them, who then in turn becomes the pursuer.

2. Baseball The act of putting out a base runner who is not on a base by touching that player with the ball.

3. Sports The act of touching a player as a substitute for tackling in touch football.

tr.v. tagged, tag·ging, tags

1. To touch (another player) in the game of tag.

2. Baseball To touch (a base runner) with the ball in order to put that player out.

3. Sports To touch (the runner) as a substitute for tackling in touch football.

Phrasal Verb:

tag up Baseball

To return to and touch a base with one foot before running to the next base after a fielder has caught a fly ball.

---

[Perhaps variant of Scots tig, touch, tap, probably alteration of Middle English tek.]

Thesaurus

Adj.

1.

tagged - bearing or marked with a label or tag; "properly labeled luggage" labeled, labelled