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tag

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1. tag - Noun

2. tag - Adjective

3. tag - Verb

Meaning

Any slight appendage, as to an article of dress; something slight hanging loosely; specifically, a direction card, or label.

A metallic binding, tube, or point, at the end of a string, or lace, to stiffen it.

A sheep of the first year.

A sale of usually used items (such as furniture, clothing, household items or bric-a-brac), conducted by one or a small group of individuals, at a location which is not a normal retail establishment.

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

To join; to fasten; to attach.

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

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

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

Source: Webster's dictionary

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I was with this girl the other night and from the way she was responding to my skillful caresses, you would have sworn that she was conscious from the top of her head to the tag on her toes. Emo Philips

A work of art that contains theories is like an object on which the price tag has been left. Alexander Pope

Being a woman writer, I would be deceiving myself if I said I write completely through the eye of a man. There's nothing bad in it, but that does not make me a feminist writer. I hate that name. The tag is from the Western world - like we are called the Third World. Buchi Emecheta

I don't believe in luck, Sam. Luck is a tag given by the mediocre to account for the accomplishments of genius. Robert A. Heinlein

What we think of as ‘Physical beauty' is almost certainly a tag for a complex of useful survival characteristics. Smartness-intelligence-among them. Robert A. Heinlein

I hate when your friends quit drinking on you, don't you? It's sad. I've lost more friends to AA than Liberace did to the virus. It's sad to see 'em go. You see a thirty day chip on your buddy's key ring, it's like seeing a toe tag on his cold, stiff corpse. Doug Stanhope

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