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tag verb- to shoot and hit someone or something US
- MR. PINK: Tagged a couple of cops. Did you kill anybody? — Reservoir Dogs, 1992
- to strike or hit someone or something US, 1975
- “Anybody can get tagged the first round.” — Leonard Gardner, Fat City, p. 47, 1969
- I didn’t really know the science of the game, but I was heavy-handed, with a lot of snap in my shoulder, so when I tagged a stud, he was hurtin’. — Edwin Torres, Carlito’s Way, p. 11, 1975
- Huey had tagged the cop again[.] — Bobby Seale, A Lonely Rage, p. 190, 1978
- to catch or arrest someone, or convict someone of a crime US, 1966
- “And I’m tagged.” “That’s right,” Pat nodded. “You’re tagged.” — Mickey Spillane, The Big Kill, p. 112, 1951
- I had driven cars for twelve years, in all but four states of the nation, and had been tagged for only two running violations[.] — Hunter S. Thompson, Hell’s Angels, p. 39, 1966
- Everybody got tagged on every count. Thirty days for investigation and sentence. — Edwin Torres, Carlito’s Way, p. 140, 1975
- to spray-paint graffiti in a signature styling US, 1980
- Graffiti in New York had first appeared on neighborhood walls when kids began tagging up their street names. — Henry Chalfant, Spraycan Art, p. 8, 1987
- It’s hard to tag around here. — William Upski Wimsatt, Bomb the Suburbs, p. 44, 1994
- I tagged up anything I could find. We used to always tag the railroad trestle. — S. Beth Atkin, Voices from the Street, p. 9, 1996
- One funny by-product of the poorly funded school system was that youths would tag all over textbooks and the books would be handed down to the next class. — Stephen Power, The Art of Getting Over, p. 14, 1999
- Taggin’ Is Phundamental. — The Source, p. 86, April 2000
- to tattoo part of the body US
- — Ken “Naz” Young, Naz’s Dictionary of Teen Slang, p. 115, 1993
- to bestow a nickname on someone US
- The fly chicks tagged “Lenore.” — William “Lord” Buckley, The Raven, 1960
- The guy who hardly ever opens his mouth is usually tagged Gabby. — Robert Edmond Alter, Carny Kill, p. 6, 1966
- to identify someone or something US
- “Body still unidentified and we’re tracking down his dental work. No prints on file.” “Think you’ll tag him?” — Mickey Spillane, One Lonely Night, p. 65, 1951
- He got tagged smuggling a truckload of bootleg cigarettes[.] — Janet Evanovich, Seven Up, p. 3, 2001
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