1. To fit with, or as with, a tag or tags.
He learned to make long-tagged thread laces. Macaulay.
His courteous host . . . Tags every sentence with some fawning word.
Dryden.
2. To join; to fasten; to attach. Bolingbroke.
3. To follow closely after; esp., to follow and touch in the game of tag. See Tag, a play.
TAG
Tag, v. i.
Defn: To follow closely, as it were an appendage; — often with after; as, to tag after a person.
TAG
Tag, n. Etym: [From Tag, v.; cf. Tag, an end.]
Defn: A child's play in which one runs after and touches another, and then runs away to avoid being touched.
TAGAL
Ta*gal", n.
1. One of a Malayan race, mainly of central Luzon, next to the Visayans the most numerous of the native peoples of the Philippines. Nearly all are Christians and many are highly educated.
2. The language of the Tagals; Tagalog.