tag out (English, verb)
expansion: tag out (third-person singular simple present tags out, present participle tagging out, simple past and past participle tagged out)
Senses:
glosses: To affix a label to (potentially dangerous machinery) to indicate why it has been shut down. To avoid accidents, only the person who affixed the label is authorized to remove it and restart the machinery.
tags: transitive
topics: hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: To touch a contestant or player in order to do something, such as to remove a runner from play in baseball or to replace a wrestler with a teammate in tag-team wrestling.
tags: transitive
glosses: To replace another person or take another person's place, such as in a shift change at a workplace.
glosses: To be replaced by another person, such as in a shift change.
Forms:
form: tags out
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: tagging out
tags: participle
present
form: tagged out
tags: participle
past
form: tagged out
tags: past