"tagalong" meaning in English

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      "expansion": "Deverbal from tag along",
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  "etymology_text": "Deverbal from tag along.",
  "forms": [
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      "form": "tagalongs",
      "tags": [
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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
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        {
          "ref": "1979 April 14, Pat M. Kuras, “Street Fantasy”, in Gay Community News, page 12:",
          "text": "Not much of a fighter, he is a quiet, tag-along mascot.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2003, John Hoover, How to work for an idiot:",
          "text": "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.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2008, Sharon Janis, Spirituality For Dummies:",
          "text": "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 […]",
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        }
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        "One who, or that which, tags along."
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        [
          "tags along",
          "tag along"
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    }
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  "word": "tagalong"
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    {
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        "2": "tag along"
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      "expansion": "Deverbal from tag along",
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  "etymology_text": "Deverbal from tag along.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "tagalongs",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
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  "pos": "noun",
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        "Pages with 1 entry",
        "Pages with entries",
        "Quotation templates to be cleaned"
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      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1979 April 14, Pat M. Kuras, “Street Fantasy”, in Gay Community News, page 12:",
          "text": "Not much of a fighter, he is a quiet, tag-along mascot.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2003, John Hoover, How to work for an idiot:",
          "text": "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.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2008, Sharon Janis, Spirituality For Dummies:",
          "text": "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 […]",
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        }
      ],
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        "One who, or that which, tags along."
      ],
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        [
          "tags along",
          "tag along"
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