toe tag

noun, verb — 2 senses

toe tag

nounalso spelled toe-tag

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:

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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."2005 September 23, Siobhan Morrissey, “Identifying the Dead: the Electronic Toe Tag”, in Time, retrieved 19 Dec 2015:

toe-tag

verb

1

Also, Slang To apply a toe tag to.

Fuck this shit, I'm tryna wrap him Body bag him, toe-tag him, do him badder2022 June 27, “Clear Da Bidness” (track 8, 0:51 from the start), in Summrs (lyrics), FALLEN RAVEN:

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