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.”

Synonyms: speech 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.