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tag line

noun

  1. (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."

Synonymsspeech tag, tag, tag line
noun

  1. The punch line of a joke.

  2. An advertising slogan.

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

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