tagger

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English

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Pronunciation

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Etymology 1

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From tag +‎ -er.

Noun

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tagger (plural taggers)

  1. One who or that which tags.
    1. The player who tries to catch others in the game of tag.
      • 1989, Francis Edward Abernethy, Texas Toys and Games, page 111:
        The teacher then calls on each one of the tagged to identify his tagger. If a student cannot guess correctly, he must sit down.
    2. A person who writes graffiti using a specific mark
    3. (computing theory) 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.
      • 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:
        To include part-of-speech (POS) information, the corpus was tagged using the CLAWS tagger.
  2. A device for removing taglocks from sheep.[1]
  3. That which is pointed like a tag.
    • 1689, Charles Cotton, Burlesque:
      hedgehogs' or porcupines' small taggers
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Etymology 2

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(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium. Particularly: “Variant of tadger?”)

Noun

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tagger (plural taggers)

  1. (slang) The penis.

Etymology 3

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(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Noun

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tagger (plural taggers)

  1. (in the plural) Sheets of tin or other plate which run below the gauge.[2]

References

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  1. ^ Edward H[enry] Knight (1877) “Tagger”, in Knight’s American Mechanical Dictionary. [], volumes III (REA–ZYM), New York, N.Y.: Hurd and Houghton [], →OCLC.
  2. ^ Edward H[enry] Knight (1877) “Tagger”, in Knight’s American Mechanical Dictionary. [], volumes III (REA–ZYM), New York, N.Y.: Hurd and Houghton [], →OCLC.

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Alternative forms

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Etymology

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Borrowed from English tag.

Pronunciation

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Verb

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tagger

  1. (graffiti) to tag
  2. to tag (label)
    tagger quelqu’un sur Facebooktag someone on Facebook

Conjugation

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