| The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth Edition. 2000. |
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| PRONUNCIATION: |  t g |
| NOUN: | 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. 5a. 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. 10a. 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). | | VERB: | Inflected forms: tagged, tag·ging, tags
| | TRANSITIVE VERB: | 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. | | INTRANSITIVE VERB: | To follow after; accompany: tagged after me everywhere; insisted on tagging along. | | ETYMOLOGY: | Middle English tagge, dangling piece of cloth on a garment, possibly of Scandinavian origin. | | OTHER FORMS: | tag ger —NOUN
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| The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition. Copyright © 2000 by Houghton Mifflin Company. Published by the Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved. |
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