| 1. | the last line of a play, story, speech, etc., used to clarify or dramatize a point. |
| 2. | a phrase or catchword that becomes identified or associated with a person, group, product, etc., through repetition: Entertainers often develop tag lines, like Ted Lewis's “Is everybody happy?” |
| 3. | Machinery. (on a crane) a cable for steadying a suspended bucket at the rear. |
| tag line also tag·line (tāg'līn') n.
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