taggers

Noun (1)

tagger (plural taggers)

1. The player who tries to catch others in the game of tag.
   • The teacher then calls on each one of the tagged to identify his tagger. If a student cannot guess correctly, he must sit down.1989, Francis Edward Abernethy, Texas Toys and Games, page 111
2. A person who writes graffiti using a specific mark
3. A program or algorithm that adds tags for purposes of categorization, e.g. grammatical information to words in a document, or genres to songs in a music collection.
   • To include part-of-speech (POS) information, the corpus was tagged using the CLAWS tagger.2018, Clarence Green, James Lambert, “Advancing disciplinary literacy through English for academic purposes: Discipline-specific wordlists, collocations and word families for eight secondary...
4. A device for removing taglocks from sheep.
5. That which is pointed like a tag.
   • hedgehogs' or porcupines' small taggers1689, Charles Cotton, Burlesque

Noun (2)

tagger (plural taggers)

1. (slang) The penis.

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