Meaning

• (authorship) A sentence part that attributes a piece of written dialogue to its speaker. (e.g. In "Get out of here," he said, "he said" is a dialogue tag.)

  "Not every paragraph of dialogue needs to have a dialogue tag attached to it."

Meaning

• The punch line of a joke.

• An advertising slogan.

• A pithy quotation habitually appended to a signature in email, newsgroups, etc.

• A line attached to a draft of cargo or a container to provide control and minimize pendulation of cargo during lifting operations.

• A light rope attached to an object being hoisted by a crane, used to guide it while lifting or lowering.