tag — OAT · Shobdo

tag

noun

1 a price tag:

label, ticket, badge, mark, marker, tab, tally, sticker, docket, stub, chit, chitty, counterfoil, flag, stamp.

2 his jacket was hung up by its tag:

tab, flap, loop, lappet, label;

strap, handle.

3 he has vowed to throw off his “bad boy” tag:

designation, denomination, label, description, characterization, identification, identity;

nickname, name, epithet, title, soubriquet, pet name, byname;

informal handle, moniker;

formal appellation, cognomen.

4 his writing is full of tags from the Bible and Shakespeare:

quotation, stock phrase, platitude, cliché, epithet, quote, extract, excerpt, passage, allusion, phrase;

saying, proverb, maxim, axiom, adage, saw, aphorism, motto, epigram, epigraph, dictum, formula, truism, slogan, catchphrase;

informal , dated gobbet.

verb

1 the bottles were tagged with color-coded labels:

label, attach tags to, put a label on, mark, ticket, earmark, identify, docket, flag, indicate.

2 he became tagged as a “thinking” actor:

designate, describe, identify, classify, label, class, categorize, characterize;

mark, stamp, brand, pigeonhole, stereotype, typecast, compartmentalize, typify;

name, call, nickname, title, entitle, dub, term, style, christen, baptize.

3 their heads were so large that the rest of their bodies seemed tagged on as an afterthought:

add, tack, join;

attach, append, affix, annex.

4 her little boy was tagging along behind her:

follow, trail;

come after, go after, tread on the heels of, shadow, dog;

go with, accompany, attend, escort;

informal tail.