tag

tag is a 3-letter English word with 21 senses as noun, transitive verb, intransitive verb, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: Any slight appendage, as to an article of dress; something slight hanging loosely; specifically, a direction card, or label. Face value is 4 in Scrabble and 5 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.

3 letters · Scrabble 4 · Words With Friends 5 · 21 senses

Definitions

1. noun. Any slight appendage, as to an article of dress; something slight hanging loosely; specifically, a direction card, or label.
2. noun. A metallic binding, tube, or point, at the end of a string, or lace, to stiffen it.
3. noun. The end, or catchword, of an actor's speech; cue.
4. noun. Something mean and paltry; the rabble.
5. noun. A sheep of the first year.
6. noun. 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.
7. transitive verb. To fit with, or as with, a tag or tags.
8. transitive verb. To join; to fasten; to attach.
9. transitive verb. To follow closely after; esp., to follow and touch in the game of tag. See Tag, a play.
10. intransitive verb. To follow closely, as it were an appendage; -- often with after; as, to tag after a person.
11. verb. A child's play in which one runs after and touches another, and then runs away to avoid being touched.
12. noun. (sports) the act of touching a player in a game (which changes their status in the game)
13. noun. a game in which one child chases the others; the one who is caught becomes the next chaser
14. noun. a small piece of cloth or paper

    Synonyms: rag, shred, tatter

15. noun. a label written or printed on paper, cardboard, or plastic that is attached to something to indicate its owner, nature, price, etc.

    Synonyms: ticket

16. noun. a label associated with something for the purpose of identification

    "semantic tags were attached in order to identify different meanings of the word"

17. verb. provide with a name or nickname
18. verb. attach a tag or label to

    "label these bottles"

    Synonyms: label, mark

19. verb. touch a player while he is holding the ball
20. verb. supply (blank verse or prose) with rhymes
21. verb. go after with the intent to catch

    "The policeman chased the mugger down the alley"

    "the dog chased the rabbit"

    Synonyms: chase, dog, tail, track, trail

Synonyms

rag, shred, tatter, ticket, label, mark, chase, dog, tail, track, trail

Anagrams

Other playable words that use exactly the letters in tag:

agt, gat

Common word forms

tags, tagal, tagged, tagger, tagging

Words from these letters

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