Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. A sale of used household belongings, with prices typically marked on labels affixed to the items.
Wiktionary
- n. in combination A retail sale in which items included in the sale are tagged with a coloured tag
- n. A domestic sale of second-hand items; a garage sale or yard sale
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. 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.
Examples
“It was Mrs. Harrington, who is best known for the tag sale she runs under big tarps stretched across her front lawn every day of the year.”
“Simply offering food and drink elevates the tag sale to party status.”
“Then we put our energy into making new friends by posting notices on trees and electrical poles advertising our tag sale and muffin tasting.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘tag sale’.
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Tag! You're it.
tag, tags, tagging, Tagalog, baronetage, montage, tagalong, Rabindranath Tagore, uredostage, ragtag and bobtail, voltage, price tag and 96 more...
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Pterodactyl's Miscellany
cream cheese, new haven, tuque, are you coming with, where are you at, anymore, yard sale, tag sale, fish heads, 7457 conspiracy, deformed-probosci..., fraughttage and 34 more...
Tweets
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sionnach A jumble sale. Apr 22, 2008
bilby In my bit of Australia, usually lawn sale. Apr 22, 2008
pterodactyl According to this map, the term "tag sale" is a regionalism from Connecticut and western Massachusetts.
Now I'm wondering what term a non-American might choose to describe one of these sales... Apr 22, 2008