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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) 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.

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