tagger

noun — 7 senses

tagger

noun

/ˈtæɡə(ɹ)/

Etymology From tag + -er.

› One who or that which tags.

1

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

A person who writes graffiti using a specific mark

3

Computing, Computing theory, Engineering, Mathematics, Natural sciences, Physical sciences, Sciences 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 taggers1689, Charles Cotton, Burlesque:
Derived terms
price tagger, tagger-along

tagger

noun
1

Slang The penis.

tagger

noun
1

In plural Sheets of tin or other plate which run below the gauge.

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