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tag teamed

tag teamed is the simple past and past participle of tag team.

Meaning of tag team

Noun

tag team (plural tag teams)

  1. A group of wrestlers who work together as a team. Only one is in the ring at any given time, and they change places by "tagging" each other with a gesture like a high five.
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  2. (broadly) Two or more people acting alternately to accomplish some task.
    • According to Ms. Haney, "Heather and I work best as a tag team. We are aware of our confrontational weaknesses and limits, and use each other to fill in the needed strengths."2004, Glenda Beamon Crawford, “Believing Less is More and Positive is Better”, in Managing the Adolescent Classroom: Lessons From Outstanding Teachers, Thousand Oaks, Calif.; London: Corwin Press...
  3. (also, attributive, broadly, slang, vulgar) An act of two or more people having sex with one person who is the focus of the sexual activity; a gangbang (sense 1); also, the people having sex with the person who is the focus of the sexual activity regarded as a group.
    • After downing a few drinks, the two Marines had vaginal and anal intercourse with her simultaneously, then took turns with her as the other watched. They referred to the former practice as "scrogging"; they called the later activity "tag team".[1989, Ronald Kessler, “Happy Birthday”, in Moscow Station: How the KGB Penetrated the American Embassy, New York, N.Y.: Scribner, →ISBN, part I, page 199

Questions about tag teamed

What is tag teamed the simple past and past participle of?
Tag teamed is the simple past and past participle of tag team.

Words near tag teamed in the dictionary

  1. tag sale
  2. tag sales
  3. tag soup
  4. tag strip
  5. tag team
  6. tag teamed
  7. tag teaming
  8. tag teams
  9. tag up
  10. tag worm
  11. tag wrestling

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