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tagbacks

tagbacks is the plural of tagback.

Meaning of tagback

Noun

tagback (plural tagbacks)

  1. (in plural) In the game of tag, the act of tagging a player who just tagged oneself, without first giving them a chance to escape — usually forbidden.
    • […] "tagback" is expressly forbidden — tagging the former It immediately after being tagged yourself.1979, Lincoln D. Stein, Family Games, page 79

Questions about tagbacks

What is tagbacks the plural of?
Tagbacks is the plural of tagback.

Words near tagbacks in the dictionary

  1. Tagawa
  2. Tagaytay
  3. Tagba-o
  4. Tagbac
  5. tagback
  6. tagbacks
  7. tagball
  8. Tagbanua
  9. Tagbanuas
  10. Tagbanuwa
  11. Tagbanuwas

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Adapted from Wiktionary: tagbacks (page history and authors); tagback (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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