dog tag

noun
1.
a small disk or strip attached to a dog's harness or collar stating owner, home, etc.
3.
Informal.
a.
any tag for a suitcase, camera, or other personal possession with the owner's name or address.
b.
a tag or card with a person's name or affiliation, worn at conventions, large meetings, etc.

Origin:
1915–20

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dog tag
 
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slang (US) a military personal-identification disc

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Dog tag is always a great word to know.
So is interrobang. Does it mean:
a gadget; dingus; thingumbob.
a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question.
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