dog tag
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3.9
- noun
- /dɔg tæɡ/
:
placa de identificación
- The soldier proudly wore his dog tag, which carried his identification details.
- wearing dog tags
- dog tags around my neck
- military dog tags
I would have liked for you to have had my dog tag Royal Air Force, but I lost it in Europe and Germany.
- I would have liked for you to have had my dog tag Royal Air Force, but I lost it in Europe and Germany.
- I have Danny's dog tag in my purse and I put like a little chain on it to like wear it has a necklace 'cause I'm weird like that.
- Well, we were down to the last couple down here. We went through these. This is your private first class? Yeah. Yep. OK. And then these are your actual dog tags. Yes. Yep,
- That's why you see guys value something like dog tags or a class rings all the time.
- And then also the the dog tags, which yeah, yes, yeah, moving and and also because they resemble the the the Israeli army, they wear these dog tags.
- It's him and of like a a a plate carrier and always dog tags and he's like in the streets of Fallujah like dude, AI is just fully like that is a war here.
Examples
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And I reached around to take the dog tags off of another Marine that I was holding.
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Then he saw in the light the glint of the boy's dog tags, the silver trace of chain at his neck, and he knew what he'd been taught in basic training, knew the purpose of dog tags.
Fiction book (1994) -
Yeah, they gave me a dog tag, too.
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Hey, you must be real proud wearing those dog tags.
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Those are my dog tags.
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Here, take my dog tags.
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These are his dog tags.
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Where the hell are your dog tags?
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On a chain around his neck: three dog tags.
Fiction book (1999) -
Most of the belongings were his: a high school yearbook; letters from football, basketball, and track; his dog tags from the army; and two small albums of photographs of his battalion taken before the Battle of the Bulge.
Fiction book (1994)
Synonyms
180
1.0
A small piece of paper or plastic attached to something to show information
41
1.6
A small badge that shows a person's name to identify them
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning is directly derivable from combining 'dog' (the animal) with 'tag' (a small label attached to an item): a tag for a dog. This noun+noun compounding pattern is common in English and cross-linguistically familiar, so a B1 learner who knows both constituents will readily infer the MWE's meaning.
Etymology
Dog tag may come from early soldier ID plates that looked like the small metal tag dogs wore on their collars; one popular story says people began calling those plates 'dog tags' because of that clear image. So today dog tag means a small metal plate soldiers wear for 'identification'.