tag
/tæɡ/ verb C2- To label (something).
- To mark (something) with one's graffiti tag.
- To remove dung tags from a sheep. · Regularly tag the rear ends of your sheep.
- To hit the ball hard. · He really tagged that ball.
- to have sex with someone (especially a man of a woman) · Steve is dying to tag Angie from chemistry class.
- To put a runner out by touching them with the ball or the ball in a gloved hand. · He tagged the runner for the out.
- To mark with a tag (metadata for classification). · I am tagging my music files by artist and genre.
- To attach the name of (a user) to a posted message so that they are linked from the post and possibly sent a notification.
He/she/it tags · Past tagged · Past participle tagged · -ing form tagging
Verb forms
- Base form
- tag
- He/she/it
- tags
- Past
- tagged
- Past participle
- tagged
- -ing form
- tagging
Phrasal verbs and expressions
- tag along To accompany, join, or follow; to go with.
- tag off To hover an RFID device such as a smartcard over a receiv...
- tag on To hover an RFID device such as a smartcard over a receiv...
- tag out To affix a label to (potentially dangerous machinery) to ...
- tag up Of a baserunner, when a fly ball is hit, to put one's foo...
From the library
Behind him tagged a boy carrying a suit-case.
However, this modern convenience comes with a remarkably heavy environmental price tag.
Other matches
- tag A small label. B2
- TAG Tight C2
- tag A decoration drawn over some Hebrew letters in ... C2
- tag along To accompany, join, or follow
- tag off To hover an RFID device such as a smartcard ove...
- tag on To hover an RFID device such as a smartcard ove...
- tag out To affix a label to
- tag up Of a baserunner, when a fly ball is hit, to put...
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