Meaning of toe tag | Babel Free

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An identifying label attached to the toe of a deceased person, especially in a morgue.

Examples

“But my strangest job was picking up dead bodies for a mortuary. . . . I had to put toe tags on the bodies.”

“"Racing in Delaware was so dead and buried you could have put a toe tag on it," Mr. Drucker said.”

“Once a body is brought back to the makeshift morgue at the airport in Gulfport, Mississippi, a forensic pathologist assigns a chip to it. Says Hargrove, ". . . it's an advanced form of the toe tag."”

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