tagger

American  

[tag-er] / ˈtæg ər /

noun

• taggers
  plural

1. a person or device that labels something.

2. a computer program that labels data.

3. a graffiti artist, particularly one who writes their signature on a wall or other surface.

4. the person who chases and tags others, in a game of tag.

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Other Word Forms

Noun Inflected Forms

• taggers
  plural

Example Sentences

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tagger taggers

A young tagger who went by “Clown,” he too wound up part of the crew.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 14, 2025

For Mr. Parlá, a former tagger, graffiti remains his fount.

From New York Times ● Mar. 8, 2020

Unbeknownst to Kyle, the sheriff had been keeping tabs on him and every other tagger in the city.

From Slate ● Mar. 21, 2019

Corrado is not a tagger, but he does use spray paint, mixed with acrylics, in his vivid, high-spirited pictures.

From Washington Post ● Dec. 28, 2018

“We’ve been calling him for a while, hoping that he would follow through and be our tagger, our captain. But it’s okay. We have a couple of other leads.”

From "The Line Tender" by Kate Allen

Some taggers also laid down primer before painting windows, Petty said.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 23, 2026

Even minor crime, he showed, had no place in Mr. Giuliani’s New York—a lesson he amplified by arresting graffiti taggers and public urinators.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 8, 2026

Even as the skyline expanded, Angelenos’ attention fell on two skyscrapers that taggers had almost entirely covered in graffiti.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 24, 2025

The traditional targets of taggers — walls, windows, street signs, lampposts, buses — remain their canvases.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 17, 2024

When you come in, I was readin' about a poor missionary woman in Baller—Baller—Ballerraderad—whose Sunday-school had been largely eat up by taggers.

From The Soldier of the Valley by Nelson Lloyd