Check
Check noun - The amount owed at a bar or restaurant or the slip of paper stating the amount.
Tag
Tag noun - A slip (as of paper or cloth) that is attached to something to identify or describe it.
How words are described
| good | good check | good tag |
| high | high check | high tag |
| full | full check | full tag |
| special | special check | special tag |
| Other adjectives: usual, fake, free, single, simple, entire, real, massive, big, huge, little, quick, personal, final, hefty, red. | ||
Common collocations
Both words in one sentence
- In the tag, three brothers named "Weissman" showed up to check in.
Source: Away in a Manger -
When she fails to sell a house in her first week (by giving back a check to Flanders after feeling guilty that she tricked him into buying a house another family was brutally murdered in) she's given a new red blazer with "Fired" on the tag.
Source: Medal of Dishonor -
Bob is equally bad, if not worst - he speeds far above highway speed limits and played "bumper tag" (practically a non-safe brake check ) with a transport truck that had pulled in front of him on the way to rehab, and was meters of getting rear-ended.
Source: Series / Canada's Worst Driver
Cite this Source
Tag and Check. (2016). Retrieved 2026, August 15, from https://thesaurus.plus/related/check/tag
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Tag or Check. 2016. Accessed August 15, 2026. https://thesaurus.plus/related/check/tag.
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