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triple-team

triple-team verb: in sports involving offensive and defensive teams, to use three defensive players to guard against the movements of a single offensive player.

Verb

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

  1. (transitive) In sports involving offensive and defensive teams, to use three defensive players to guard against the movements of a single offensive player.
  2. (broadly, transitive) To deal with or handle a task or individual person by using a team of three people.
  3. (slang, transitive) To sexually penetrate someone simultaneously orally, anally, and vaginally.
  4. (slang, transitive) To gang up on someone, as a group of three.

Forms of triple-team

third-person singular presenttriple-teams
present participletriple-teaming
past participletriple-teamed
pasttriple-teamed

Questions about triple-team

What does triple-team mean?
Triple-team means in sports involving offensive and defensive teams, to use three defensive players to guard against the movements of a single offensive player.
What part of speech is triple-team?
Triple-team is a verb.
What is the past tense of triple-team?
The past tense of triple-team is triple-teamed.

Words near triple-team in the dictionary

  1. Triple-O
  2. triple-SIM
  3. triple-stranded
  4. triple-tail
  5. triple-tails
  6. triple-team
  7. triple-teamed
  8. triple-teaming
  9. triple-teams
  10. triple-threater
  11. triple-threaters

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