tag day
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of tag day
First recorded in 1905–10
Example Sentences
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Running backs are not the only guys getting big deals on franshise tag day, either.
From Washington Post • Mar. 5, 2012
"They don't hold a tag day for me!"
From Time Magazine Archive
Our modern "tag day" was a revival of this custom, though in the mediaeval towns, where everybody knew everybody else, there were less social dangers in the custom.
From The Century of Columbus by Walsh, James J.
"And Annie's wearing out eighty dollars' worth of tyres to collect seventy-five dollars for the British Red Cross- -this is their tag day, you know."
From On the Makaloa Mat by London, Jack
We'll have a tag day and a rummage sale and I'll get up a dicker party and some theatricals.
From Mary Louise and Josie O'Gorman by Sampson, Emma Speed
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