- plural of tagger.
taggers
Britishplural noun
Etymology
Origin of taggers
C19: perhaps so called because it was used to make tags for laces
Example Sentences
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Early in 2024, taggers began turning its skyscrapers into canvases for graffiti.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 28, 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
But it also attracted scores of photographers, visual artists, taggers and scene kids who documented the unruly energy brimming over these grim industrial landscapes, lighted up with flames and police chopper spotlights.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 15, 2026
But some of today’s taggers are leveraging larger audiences on social media and higher-profile targets to make a name for themselves.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 17, 2024
Edward circumnavigated the little cement wading pool, tracing the political runes left behind by the Market’s cheerful anarchist taggers, painfully bent almost double at his enormous waist.
From Someone Comes to Town, Someone Leaves Town by Cory Doctorow
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