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  1. noun A strip of leather, paper, metal, or plastic attached to something or hung from a wearer's neck to identify, classify, or label: sale tags on all coats and dresses.
  2. noun The plastic or metal tip at the end of a shoelace.
  3. noun The contrastingly colored tip of an animal's tail.
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  • From kottke.org I got a link to an interesting little articlette on the BBC Web site about the use of innit to finish sentences as what they identify as a tag question.
  • This tag has been added for future use if that format ever gets broken. —  Official MP3 Rules v1.1 (with notes
  • Nevertheless, Julian figured the tag was the work of a gen two, probably a boy about fourteen. —  F ;SF; - vol 091 issue 01 - July 1996
  • This tag is almost as long as the 38 question tag! —  Giddy Tigers
  • According to the company, the tag is available with an optional EPC 96-bit ID structure, and could meet the EPC Class 4 standard when released by —  Rfidjournal.com NEWS RSS Feed
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Etymologies (7)

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  1. Middle English tagge, dangling piece of cloth on a garment, possibly of Scandinavian origin.
  2. Perhaps variant of Scots tig, touch, tap, probably alteration of Middle English tek.

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  1. Early modern English tagge; from Swedish tagg, a point; cf. Icelandic tāg, a willow-twig; cf. Low German takk = German zacke, point, tooth; cf. tack. The Icelandic taug, a string, cord, is not related; it goes with tow, tag.
  2. from tag, n.
  3. Formerly also tagg; also tigtag (apparently a varied redupl. of tag) or simply tig; origin uncertain; connection with tag (as of ‘a game in which one player follows or tags after the others’) is not clear; and connection with L. tangere (√ tag, touch, as if ‘touching’) is out of the question.
  4. Cf. tag, n.
  5. English dial. also teg; origin uncertain. Connection with stag, steg, can hardly be asserted.
 

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