meat tag
n.— «One of his 15 platoon sections moved eastward in search of wounded.…“We took the meat tags off two blokes.”» —by Peter Brune The Spell Broken: Exploding the Myth of Japanese Invincibility: Milne Bay to Buna-Sanananda 1942-43 , 1997. (source: Double-Tongued Dictionary)
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