toe-tagとは 意味・読み方・使い方

別の表記

• toe-tag

名詞

toe tag (複数形 toe tags)

1. An identifying label attached to the toe of a deceased person, especially in a morgue.
   • 1984 August, Joseph R. Levy, "Movies: Revenge of Tim Metcalfe," Cincinnati Magazine, p. 13 (Google preview):

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

   • 1997 May 25, Elsa Brenner, "Assessing The Future Of Yonkers Raceway," New York Times (retrieved 19 Dec 2015):

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

   • 2005 Sept. 23, Siobhan Morrissey, "Identifying the Dead: the Electronic Toe Tag," Time (retrieved 19 Dec 2015):

     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."

参考

toe tag on Wikipedia.

アナグラム

• goetta, togate