Tag

tag, n. a tack or point of metal at the end of a string: any small thing tacked or attached to another: any pendant or appendage, the tip of an animal's tail: the rabble collectively, anything mean.— v.t. to fit a tag or point to: to tack, fasten, or hang to: to dog or follow closely.— v.i. to make tags, to string words or ideas together: to go behind as a follower:— pr.p. tag′ging; pa.t. and pa.p. tagged.— ns. Tag′-end , a loosely connected end, the concluding part; Tag′ger , anything that tags, an appendage.— n.pl. Tag′gers , thin sheet-iron.— n. and adj. Tag′rag , a fluttering rag, a tatter: the rabble, or denoting it—the same as Rag-tag , often in phrase Tagrag and bobtail .— ns. Tag′-sore , a disease in sheep, in which, the tail is excoriated through diarrhœa; Tag′-tail , a worm with a tail like a tag: a hanger-on, parasite. [A weaker form of tack .]