Tag /(?)/

1. Any slight appendage, as to an article of dress; something slight hanging loosely; specifically, a direction card, or label.
2. A metallic binding, tube, or point, at the end of a string, or lace, to stiffen it.
3. The end, or catchword, of an actor's speech; cue.
4. Something mean and paltry; the rabble. [Obs.]
5. A sheep of the first year. [Prov. Eng.]

imp. & p. p. Tagged; p. pr. & vb. n. Tagging

1. To fit with, or as with, a tag or tags.

   He learned to make long-tagged thread laces.

   His courteous host . . . Tags every sentence with some fawning word.

2. To join; to fasten; to attach.
3. To follow closely after; esp., to follow and touch in the game of tag. See Tag, a play.

1. To follow closely, as it were an appendage; -- often with after; as, to tag after a person.

1. A child's play in which one runs after and touches another, and then runs away to avoid being touched.