tag
n. countablen. a small piece of paper or plastic attached to something to show its price or name. You also use this word online to label a photo or a post with a keyword.
n. a label attached to an object for identification or classification; in digital contexts, a metadata keyword assigned to a piece of information to facilitate searching.
Check the price tag before you buy those shoes.
She forgot to remove the tag from her new dress before the party.
The developer implemented a system where each blog post could have multiple tags, allowing users to filter content by specific topics or themes.
Commonly used as a verb in social media contexts to mean 'mentioning' or 'linking' a person to a post.
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phone tag
A situation in which two individuals attempting to contact each other by telephone repeatedly do not get a live person and instead trade messages, such as by voice mail.
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tag along
To accompany, join, or follow; to go with.
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telephone tag
A situation in which a person unsuccessfully attempts to contact another person by telephone and leaves a message instead, and in which the second person then unsuccessfully attempts to return the initial call and leaves a message for the first person, and so on as if the two are playing a game of tag in which the most recent person to have been left with a message is now designated as "it" (i.e. as the player now obliged to chase the other and to attempt anew to make contact).