dialogue tag (English, noun)
expansion: dialogue tag (plural dialogue tags)
Senses:
glosses: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see dialogue, tag.
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television
writing
glosses: 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.)
Forms:
form: dialogue tags
tags: plural