tagger

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈtæɡə(ɹ)/

• Audio (General Australian):

  (file)

• Rhymes: -æɡə(ɹ)

Etymology 1

From tag +‎ -er.

Noun

tagger (plural taggers)

1. One who or that which tags.
   1. The player who tries to catch others in the game of tag.
      • 1989, Francis Edward Abernethy, Texas Toys and Games, page 111:

        The teacher then calls on each one of the tagged to identify his tagger. If a student cannot guess correctly, he must sit down.

   2. A person who writes graffiti using a specific mark
   3. (computing theory) 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.
      • 2018, Clarence Green, James Lambert, “Advancing disciplinary literacy through English for academic purposes: Discipline-specific wordlists, collocations and word families for eight secondary subjects”, in Journal of English for Academic Purposes, volume 35, →DOI, page 109:

        To include part-of-speech (POS) information, the corpus was tagged using the CLAWS tagger.

2. A device for removing taglocks from sheep.
3. That which is pointed like a tag.
   • 1689, Charles Cotton, Burlesque:

     hedgehogs' or porcupines' small taggers

Derived terms

• price tagger
• tagger-along

 

Translations

person who writes graffiti

• French: tagueur (fr) m

Etymology 2

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium. Particularly: “Variant of tadger?”)

Noun

tagger (plural taggers)

1. (slang) The penis.

Etymology 3

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Noun

tagger (plural taggers)

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

Anagrams

• garget

French

Alternative forms

• taguer

Etymology

Borrowed from English tag.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ta.ɡe/

• Audio:

  (file)

Verb

tagger

1. (graffiti) to tag
2. to tag (label)

   tagger quelqu’un sur Facebook ― tag someone on Facebook

Conjugation

Conjugation of tagger (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	tagger
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	taggant /ta.ɡɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		taggé /ta.ɡe/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	tagge /taɡ/	tagges /taɡ/	tagge /taɡ/	taggons /ta.ɡɔ̃/	taggez /ta.ɡe/	taggent /taɡ/
	imperfect	taggais /ta.ɡɛ/	taggais /ta.ɡɛ/	taggait /ta.ɡɛ/	taggions /ta.ɡjɔ̃/	taggiez /ta.ɡje/	taggaient /ta.ɡɛ/
	past historic2	taggai /ta.ɡe/	taggas /ta.ɡa/	tagga /ta.ɡa/	taggâmes /ta.ɡam/	taggâtes /ta.ɡat/	taggèrent /ta.ɡɛʁ/
	future	taggerai /ta.ɡʁe/	taggeras /ta.ɡʁa/	taggera /ta.ɡʁa/	taggerons /ta.ɡʁɔ̃/	taggerez /ta.ɡʁe/	taggeront /ta.ɡʁɔ̃/
	conditional	taggerais /ta.ɡʁɛ/	taggerais /ta.ɡʁɛ/	taggerait /ta.ɡʁɛ/	taggerions /ta.ɡə.ʁjɔ̃/	taggeriez /ta.ɡə.ʁje/	taggeraient /ta.ɡʁɛ/
(compound tenses)	present perfect	present indicative of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect	imperfect indicative of avoir + past participle
	past anterior2	past historic of avoir + past participle
	future perfect	future of avoir + past participle
	conditional perfect	conditional of avoir + past participle
subjunctive		que je (j’)	que tu	qu’il, qu’elle	que nous	que vous	qu’ils, qu’elles
(simple tenses)	present	tagge /taɡ/	tagges /taɡ/	tagge /taɡ/	taggions /ta.ɡjɔ̃/	taggiez /ta.ɡje/	taggent /taɡ/
	imperfect2	taggasse /ta.ɡas/	taggasses /ta.ɡas/	taggât /ta.ɡa/	taggassions /ta.ɡa.sjɔ̃/	taggassiez /ta.ɡa.sje/	taggassent /ta.ɡas/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	tagge /taɡ/	—	taggons /ta.ɡɔ̃/	taggez /ta.ɡe/	—
compound		—	simple imperative of avoir + past participle	—	simple imperative of avoir + past participle	simple imperative of avoir + past participle	—
1 The French gerund is usable only with the preposition en.
2 In less formal writing or speech, these tenses may be found to have been replaced in the following way: past historic → present perfect past anterior → pluperfect imperfect subjunctive → present subjunctive pluperfect subjunctive → past subjunctive (Christopher Kendris [1995], Master the Basics: French, pp. 77, 78, 79, 81).