slag tag
- noun
- Baby Talk
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juego de etiqueta
- The children invented a new rule for slag tag to make it more challenging.
Examples
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Let's play slag tag after school!
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She quickly became the champion of slag tag at her school.
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At summer camp, we played slag tag almost every afternoon before dinner.
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I love playing slag tag with my friends.
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At summer camp, we played slag tag almost every afternoon before dinner.
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She quickly became the champion of slag tag at her school.
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I love playing slag tag with my friends.
Synonyms
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1.0
A game where one player chases others and tries to touch them
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9.9
A game where one child chases others to touch them
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A simple game that children play for fun
How Physical
Surface Forms
Morphology
slag + tag
The headword 'tag' clearly signals that this is a variant of the playground game, so a learner who knows both constituents could infer it is some kind of 'tag' game. However, 'slag' is opaque or lexically unclear here (no clear dictionary sense provided or it has unrelated senses), so the specific meaning and rules cannot be derived from the parts alone. Because the relation is partly predictable (a type of tag) but not fully transparent, it is best classified as semi-transparent.
Etymology
Slag tag may come from children making a playful name by adding the silly word slag to the old game tag. Because kids used that word while they ran and touched each other, the name stuck and now means a special children's version of 'tag' with its own rules.