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Tag (?), n. [Probably akin to tack a small nail; cf. Sw. tagg a prickle, point, tooth.]
1. Any slight appendage, as to an article of dress; something slight hanging loosely; specifically, a direction card, or label.
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2. A metallic binding, tube, or point, at the end of a string, or lace, to stiffen it.
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3. The end, or catchword, of an actor's speech; cue.
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4. Something mean and paltry; the rabble. [Obs.]
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Tag and rag, the lowest sort; the rabble. Holinshed.
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5. A sheep of the first year. [Prov. Eng.] Halliwell.
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Tag, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Tagged (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Tagging (?).]
1. To fit with, or as with, a tag or tags.
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He learned to make long-tagged thread laces. Macaulay.
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His courteous host . . .
Tags every sentence with some fawning word. Dryden.
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2. To join; to fasten; to attach. Bolingbroke.
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3. To follow closely after; esp., to follow and touch in the game of tag. See Tag, a play.
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Tag, v. i. To follow closely, as it were an appendage; -- often with after; as, “to tag after a person”.
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Tag, n. [From Tag, v.; cf. Tag, an end.] A child's play in which one runs after and touches another, and then runs away to avoid being touched.
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