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tagger

/ˈtæɡə(ɹ)/

tagger noun: the player who tries to catch others in the game of tag.

Noun (1)

tagger (plural taggers)

  1. The player who tries to catch others in the game of tag.
    • The teacher then calls on each one of the tagged to identify his tagger. If a student cannot guess correctly, he must sit down.1989, Francis Edward Abernethy, Texas Toys and Games, page 111
  2. A person who writes graffiti using a specific mark
  3. A program or algorithm that adds tags for purposes of categorization, e.g. grammatical information to words in a document, or genres to songs in a music collection.
    • To include part-of-speech (POS) information, the corpus was tagged using the CLAWS tagger.2018, Clarence Green, James Lambert, “Advancing disciplinary literacy through English for academic purposes: Discipline-specific wordlists, collocations and word families for eight secondary...
  4. A device for removing taglocks from sheep.
  5. That which is pointed like a tag.
    • hedgehogs' or porcupines' small taggers1689, Charles Cotton, Burlesque

Noun (2)

tagger (plural taggers)

  1. (slang) The penis.

Noun (3)

tagger (plural taggers)

  1. (in plural) Sheets of tin or other plate which run below the gauge.

Forms of tagger

pluraltaggers

Origin of tagger

From tag + -er.

Words formed from tagger

Words that rhyme with tagger

9 more rhymesFewer rhymes

Questions about tagger

What does tagger mean?
Tagger means the player who tries to catch others in the game of tag.
What part of speech is tagger?
Tagger is a noun.
How do you pronounce tagger?
Tagger is pronounced /ˈtæɡə(ɹ)/.
What is the plural of tagger?
The plural of tagger is taggers.

Words near tagger in the dictionary

  1. tagged on
  2. tagged out
  3. tagged up
  4. taggee
  5. taggees
  6. tagger
  7. tagger-along
  8. taggers
  9. taggers-along
  10. Taggerty
  11. taggiasca

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