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toe tag

toe tag noun: an identifying label attached to the toe of a deceased person, especially in a morgue.

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)
    • "Racing in Delaware was so dead and buried you could have put a toe tag on it," Mr. Drucker said.1997 May 25, Elsa Brenner, “Assessing The Future Of Yonkers Raceway”, in New York Times, retrieved 19 Dec 2015

Forms of toe tag

pluraltoe tags
alternative formtoe-tag

Questions about toe tag

What does toe tag mean?
Toe tag means an identifying label attached to the toe of a deceased person, especially in a morgue.
What part of speech is toe tag?
Toe tag is a noun.
What is the plural of toe tag?
The plural of toe tag is toe tags.

Words near toe tag in the dictionary

  1. toe shoes
  2. toe sock
  3. toe socks
  4. toe stop
  5. toe stops
  6. toe tag
  7. toe tags
  8. toe tapper
  9. toe tappers
  10. toe the line
  11. toe the mark

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