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tagger en · NOUN · etymology 1

Pronunciation

  • /ˈtæɡə(ɹ)/
  • (Australia) audio

Etymology

From tag + -er.

Meanings

  1. One who or that which tags. ▸ 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. One who or that which tags. ▸ A person who writes graffiti using a specific mark
  3. One who or that which tags. ▸ 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 subjects”, in Journal of English for Academic Purposes, volume 35, →DOI, page 109:
  4. A device for removing taglocks from sheep.
  5. That which is pointed like a tag.
    • hedgehogs' or porcupines' small taggers 1689, Charles Cotton, Burlesque:

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Deriveds

tagger-along · price tagger

Translations (1)

fr tagueur (person who writes graffiti)

tagger en · NOUN · etymology 2

Pronunciation

  • /ˈtæɡə(ɹ)/
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Meanings

  1. (slang) The penis.

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tagger en · NOUN · etymology 3

Pronunciation

  • /ˈtæɡə(ɹ)/
  • (Australia) audio

Meanings

  1. (in-plural) Sheets of tin or other plate which run below the gauge.

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