tag up

verb

tagged up; tagging up; tags up

intransitive verb

: to touch a base before running in baseball after a fly ball is caught

Examples of tag up in a Sentence

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So Chapman’s first impulse was to go back to second base to tag up. Andrew Baggarly, The Athletic, 18 Aug. 2024 Rice hit a flyball to the warning track, but Trent Grisham, in for Jones, didn’t tag up on the out. Gary Phillips, New York Daily News, 23 July 2024 Birdsong hit Jeffers with a pitch and the catcher tagged up on Brooks Lee’s deep fly ball. Dan Hayes, The Athletic, 13 July 2024 Volpe was caught between tagging up and running as the ball was in the air before eventually settling at third. Rohan Nadkarni, NBC News, 30 Oct. 2024 See all Example Sentences for tag up 

Word History

First Known Use

1942, in the meaning defined above

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The first known use of tag up was in 1942

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“Tag up.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/tag%20up. Accessed 30 Dec. 2024.

Kids Definition

tag up

verb
: to touch a base before running in baseball after a fly ball is caught
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