toe tag

toe tag

1. noun A piece of paper or cardboard attached to the toe of a deceased person's body in order to identify them while in a morgue. The disgruntled employee spent his last day swapping all the toe tags around in order to cause chaos in the morgue.
2. verb To attach such a piece of identification to a body's toe. Sometimes hyphenated. We're just waiting for the mortician to come around and toe tag the body. I can't believe you toe-tagged the poor guy with the wrong information!
See also: tag, toe
Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.

toe tag

tv. to kill someone. (Bodies in the morgue are identified by tags on their big toes.) Man, you treat me that way one more time and I’m gonna toe tag you!
See also: tag, toe
McGraw-Hill's Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions
See also:
  • angle
  • angling
  • high
  • high, wide, and handsome
  • wear (one's) apron high
  • fire and brimstone
  • bummer
  • swag
References in periodicals archive
Bryant, among others, took issue with what she said was a double standard that Snoop Dogg was being allowed to perform in Springfield at the Illinois State Fair despite using controversial imagery showing a body on a gurney with a toe tag "Trump" and the words "Make America Crip Again," a reference to gang violence and President Donald Trump.
One picture has a mordantly bathetic caption--'corpse with a receding hairline and a toe tag'.
Toe Tag Riot, a fun punk rock comic book co-created by Matt Miner with his artist collaborator Sean Von Gorman, is a series about a punk rock band that is temporarily cursed with zombification.
Please let this be a one-and-done encounter, because the Washington Generals have a better chance of beating the Globetrotters than the Colonels of Nicholls do of winning in Autzen Stadium today, even if their $450,000 toe tag will make the flight back to Thibodaux, La., more soothing.
in its black brick, photo grim as a toe tag. Still your daughter
Potential images include a photo of a corpse with a toe tag, a man smoking through a hole in his throat, and side-by-side photographs of diseased and healthy lungs.
But according to a student, the class did not find out until they saw their teacher's name on the body's toe tag.
Little Miss 1565 was what they called her, from the body number that a morgue had put on her toe tag. The real name and identity of this young blond in a white dress remain a mystery, even though her death photo, in which she appeared to be merely sleeping, ran on newspaper front pages across the country.
After a long hiatus and the departure of most of the original members (who formed Toe Tag), Tommy Accused rallied and got a band together.
Batman's bust; John Lennon white suit; Houdini's straitjacket; Beatles contract; Elvis's bling; Wizard of Oz hat; Odd Job's lethal hat; Jack Ruby's pistol; Lee Harvey Oswald's toe tag; Superman's film outfit; Sinatra's Rolls-Royce; Maltese falcon; Indiana Jones's bull-whip Pictures: BARCROFTMEDIA.COM
The four pictures, which include scenes of a suspect locked up in a cell and of a corpse identified by a toe tag, will be seen by thousands of revellers during next month's party season.
Camera (color), Brendan Flynt; editor, Todd Ramsay; music, various; art director, Nick Zito; set decorator; Ethan Alred; sound (Dolby Digital), Ben Zarai; special makeup f/x, Toe Tag Pictures; casting, Palumbo.
And the type and number of rounds can be annotated by attaching a toe tag to the handle; this enables the section sergeant/FSO/FSNCO to update their reference cards quickly.
The only way I'm leaving this house now is wearing a toe tag. And, for as much grousing as I gave my wife, I have just as much pride in the finished product as she.
Called Skeletons In the Closet, it is housed in the Los Angeles Coroner's Department and there customers can buy morbid items that range from natty $14 knickers, emblazoned with a dead body chalk outline, to toe tag key chains at $5 apiece.