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toe-tag

toe-tag is the alternative form of toe tag.

Meaning of toe tag

Noun

toe tag (plural toe tags)

  1. An identifying label attached to the toe of a deceased person, especially in a morgue.
    • But my strangest job was picking up dead bodies for a mortuary. . . . I had to put toe tags on the bodies.1984 August, Joseph R. Levy, "Movies: Revenge of Tim Metcalfe," Cincinnati Magazine, p. 13 (Google preview)

Verb

toe-tag (third-person singular simple present toe-tags, present participle toe-tagging, simple past and past participle toe-tagged)

  1. (also, slang, transitive) To apply a toe tag to.
    • Fuck this shit, I'm tryna wrap him
      Body bag him, toe-tag him, do him badder2022 June 27, “Clear Da Bidness” (track 8, 0:51 from the start), in Summrs (lyrics), FALLEN RAVEN

Forms of toe-tag

Noun
pluraltoe-tags
Verb
third-person singular presenttoe-tags
present participletoe-tagging
past participletoe-tagged
pasttoe-tagged

Questions about toe-tag

What does toe-tag mean?
Toe-tag means to apply a toe tag to.
What is toe-tag the alternative form of?
Toe-tag is the alternative form of toe tag.
What part of speech is toe-tag?
Toe-tag is a verb.
What is the past tense of toe-tag?
The past tense of toe-tag is toe-tagged.

Words near toe-tag in the dictionary

  1. toe-poking
  2. toe-rag
  3. toe-ragger
  4. toe-raggers
  5. toe-rags
  6. toe-tag
  7. toe-tagged
  8. toe-tagging
  9. toe-tags
  10. toe-tap
  11. toe-tapped

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: toe-tag (page history and authors); toe tag (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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