toe tag

plural toe tags · alternative toe-tag

1. An identifying label attached to the toe of a deceased person, especially in a morgue.

   "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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   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)

   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