tagged along; tagging along; tags along
: to follow another's lead especially in going from one place to another
Examples of tagalong in a Sentence
Noun
His little sister was sometimes a tagalong on his outings with his friends.
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Fran Golden, AFAR Media, 28 Jan. 2025
By high school, my mama and aunties became my tagalongs to those wig rooms, encouraging me to define my own beauty.
—Akilah Sailers, Essence, 30 Sep. 2024
Janine Henni, People.com, 18 Apr. 2025
The odd couple: Chelsea (Aimee Lou Wood), a free-spirited young woman from Manchester tagging along with her cranky, fiftysomething life partner Rick (Walton Goggins), who is on a mission to avenge his father’s death.
—Robert Lloyd, Los Angeles Times, 4 Apr. 2025
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Noun
Also along for the ride had been my son, Eli, who was—to the girls, anyway—a pesky 12-year-old tagalong.
—Fran Golden, AFAR Media, 28 Jan. 2025
By high school, my mama and aunties became my tagalongs to those wig rooms, encouraging me to define my own beauty.
—Akilah Sailers, Essence, 30 Sep. 2024
Verb
Prince Louis tagged along for the Easter Matins Service for the first time in 2023, and the Wales family had a matching moment by wearing blue hues.
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—Janine Henni, People.com, 18 Apr. 2025
The odd couple: Chelsea (Aimee Lou Wood), a free-spirited young woman from Manchester tagging along with her cranky, fiftysomething life partner Rick (Walton Goggins), who is on a mission to avenge his father’s death.
—Robert Lloyd, Los Angeles Times, 4 Apr. 2025
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“Tagalong.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/tagalong. Accessed 29 Apr. 2025.
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tagalong
1 of 2 noun
tag·along
ˈtag-ə-ˌlȯŋ 
: one that tags along
tag along
2 of 2 verbˌtag-ə-ˈlȯŋ
: to follow another's lead especially in going from one place to another
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