tagger

plural taggers

1. 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. computerA 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

2. A device for removing taglocks from sheep.
3. That which is pointed like a tag.

   hedgehogs' or porcupines' small taggers

   1689, Charles Cotton, Burlesque

plural taggers

1. slangThe penis.

plural taggers

1. in pluralSheets of tin or other plate which run below the gauge.