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tagalong en · NOUN

Etymology

Deverbal from tag along.

Meanings

1. One who, or that which, tags along.
   • We started about 6 o'clock with a few tagalongs and our little group got smaller and smaller with each bar until it was just the three of us. 2003, John Hoover, How to work for an idiot:
   • Not much of a fighter, he is a quiet, tag-along mascot. 1979 April 14, Pat M. Kuras, “Street Fantasy”, in Gay Community News, page 12:
   • Being in love is one of the greatest experiences you can have, but it also opens the door for all kinds of tagalongs, such as attachment […] 2008, Sharon Janis, Spirituality For Dummies:
2. A pattern that attaches to the back of a spaceship, moving along with it.
   • Coordinate term: pushalong

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