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tag-team

UK/ˈtæɡtiːm/US/ˈtæɡˌtim/

tag-team adjective: performed by two or more people or groups working alternately.

Adjective

tag-team (not comparable)

  1. Performed by two or more people or groups working alternately.
    • Both of them worked, so they practiced a sort of tag-team parenting, swapping mornings and afternoons when the kids weren’t in school.

Verb

tag-team (third-person singular simple present tag-teams, present participle tag-teaming, simple past and past participle tag-teamed)

  1. (intransitive) To wrestle as part of a tag team (sense 1).
    • We haven't tag-teamed in the ring for quite a while.2010, Hulk Hogan, My Life Outside the Ring, →ISBN
    • I suggested, to no avail, that WWF (nature) should sponsor a fluffy black-and-white wrestler called the Panda, tag-teamed with the Game Warden.2012, Paul Spencer Sochaczewski, An Inordinate Fondness for Beetles, →ISBN, page 171
  2. (broadly, intransitive) To alternate working with someone else in order to accomplish a task.
    • Our spouses and children have become friends, and we have tag-teamed as presenters in local settings and at national conferences.2010, Mark J. Allman, Tobias L. Winright, After the Smoke Clears: The Just War Tradition and Post War Justice, →ISBN
  3. (transitive) To alternate working with someone else in order to accomplish a task directed at (someone).
    • But Andrew and Blieu wouldn't hear of such a thing, so they tag-teamed her about staying on until finally, weakened from their constant badgering, Rachel couldn't take it any longer.2002, Katrina Antoinette Croswell, To Whom Much Is Given: A Novel, →ISBN, page 19
    • Meanwhile, the agency can pursue the network, and you guys tag-team them.2008, Anastasia Brown, Brian Mansfield, Make Me a Star, →ISBN
  4. (slang, transitive, vulgar) To have sex with (someone) in a group with one or more other people.
    • Personal: Three horny men looking to tag-team young afro-american virgin.1996, Fred Schultz, Education 96/97, →ISBN, page 151
    • I get women who want me to tag-team them, and stuff like that.1996, Vanity Fair - Issues 428-430, page 112

Forms of tag-team

third-person singular presenttag-teams
present participletag-teaming
past participletag-teamed
pasttag-teamed

Origin of tag-team

Probably from tag team (noun).

Questions about tag-team

What does tag-team mean?
Tag-team means performed by two or more people or groups working alternately.
What part of speech is tag-team?
Tag-team can be an adjective or a verb.
How do you pronounce tag-team?
Tag-team is pronounced /ˈtæɡtiːm/ (UK).

Words near tag-team in the dictionary

  1. tag-along right
  2. tag-along rights
  3. Tag-os
  4. tag-rag
  5. tag-rag and bobtail
  6. tag-team
  7. tag-teamed
  8. tag-teaming
  9. tag-teams
  10. tag-worm
  11. Tagab-iran

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