Here is a quotation from Alex Sachare, 100 Greatest Basketball Moments of All Time (1997) that should give a pretty clear idea of how dagger was initially used in the context of basketball and why it is an apt term: In Chicago and especially in Cleveland, it is simply known as "The Shot." To fans of the Cleveland Cavaliers, it might also be called the dagger, as in dagger through the heart ...
But for the "dagger" sign there is no Unicode. Is there any quick and easy way to write it? It takes a lot of time to go to the "Equation" tab and find this sign.
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It is a double dagger and it is often used in typography to indicate a footnote. The simple one (†), with only one horizontal bar is called a dagger after it's resemblance with the blade. If you have two footnotes on a given page, the first one will be marked with the single dagger and the second one with the double dagger. In lists of peoples (authors, military staff), the dagger will ...
The I was the longest, and is the largest push-dagger CS has made to date. The II was similar to the Terminator/Defender I, and the III was almost identical to the Urban Skinner/Defender II. In fact, the blade lengths are the same, but the necks on the Safe Keepers were lengthened a little, increasing the overall length a bit.
It is not at all unusual to see the dagger used as the only note marker, or to have the asterisk skipped and the dagger and double dagger used. Often the asterisk is apt to be mistaken for text (eg, in a math treatise) and so it's use as a footnote marker is ill-advised.