toe tag
See also: toe-tag
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- 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”, in New York Times, retrieved 19 December 2015:
- "Racing in Delaware was so dead and buried you could have put a toe tag on it," Mr. Drucker said.
- 2005 September 23, Siobhan Morrissey, “Identifying the Dead: the Electronic Toe Tag”, in Time, retrieved 19 December 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."
- 1984 August, Joseph R. Levy, "Movies: Revenge of Tim Metcalfe," Cincinnati Magazine, p. 13 (Google preview):
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