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(heading) ''Physical appendage.''

A small label.

A skin tag, an excrescence of skin.

A dangling lock of sheep's wool, matted with dung; a dung tag.

Any slight appendage, as to an article of dress; something slight hanging loosely.

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

(biochemistry) Any short peptide sequence artificially attached to proteins mostly in order to help purify, solubilize or visualize these proteins.

Something mean and paltry; the rabble, originally refer to rag as torn cloth.

(heading) ''Last nonphysical appendage.''

(music_appendage) The last line (or last two lines) of a song's chorus that is repeated to indicate the end of the song.

(television) The last scene of a TV program, often focusing on the program's subplot.

The end, or catchword, of an actor's speech; cue.

(heading) ''Nonphysical label.''

(authorship) An attribution in narrated dialogue (eg, "he said") or attributed words (e.g. "he thought").

(computing) A piece of markup representing an element in a markup language.

(keyword) (computing) A keyword, term, or phrase associated with or assigned to data, media, and/or information enabling keyword-based classification; often used to categorize content.

(heading) ''Identity.''

(US) A vehicle number plate; a medal bearing identification data (animals, soldiers).

(slang) A person's name.

(heading) ''Involving being tagged physically.''

(game of chasing and labeling) A game, especially for children on playgrounds, in which one player (known as "it") attempts to touch another, who then becomes "it"; any similar game of chasing and trying to reach, touch, shoot, or label other players.

(baseball) An instance of touching the baserunner with the ball or the ball in a gloved hand to rule him "out."

(heading) ''Signature.''

Graffiti in the form of a stylized signature particular to the artist.

A type of cardboard.

A sheep in its first year.

To label (something).

To mark (something) with one's graffiti tag.

To remove dung tags from a sheep.

(colloquial) To hit the ball hard.

(1990s) to have sex with someone (especially a man of a woman)

(baseball) To put a runner out by touching them with the ball or the ball in a gloved hand.

(computing) To mark with a tag (metadata for classification).

(internet) To attach the name of (a user) to a posted message so that they are linked from the post and possibly sent a notification.

To follow closely, accompany, tag along.

To catch and touch (a player in the game of tag).

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

To fasten; to attach.

{{rfquote-sense|en}} (slang) To make contact with an enemy, usually by attacking it before other players do, to establish exclusive or partial eligibility for loot, experience points achievements, etc.

(music) To repeat (the ending of a song); to play a tag

(letter ornament) A decoration drawn over some Hebrew letters in Jewish scrolls, especially in Stam style.