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tag·-team (tag′tēm′)

adjective

  1. designating or having to do with a form of professional wrestling in which two-member teams compete, with teammates alternating in the ring
  2. Informal of or having to do with any activity in which participants work together alternately

Etymology: so named because a wrestler must tag, or touch, a teammate before replacing him or her in the ring: see tag ()

Webster's New World College Dictionary Copyright © 2009 by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Cleveland, Ohio.
Used by arrangement with John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

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