a two-member team in tag-team wrestling
Origin of tag team
so named because a wrestler must tag, or touch, a teammate before replacing him or her in the ring: see tag (transitive verb)tag team
tag-team
adjective
The definition of tag team is an activity where the participants take turns participating as team members.
An example of a tag team approach is when all five of your kids come up to you and start, one-by-one, to beg you for ice cream.
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tag team
tag-team
- designating or having to do with a form of professional wrestling in which two-member teams compete, with teammates alternating in the ring
- Informal of or having to do with any activity in which participants work together alternately
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tag team
noun
A team of two or more wrestlers who take turns competing against one of the wrestlers on another team, with the idle teammates waiting outside the ring until one of them is tagged by their competing teammate.
tag-team
verb
tag-teamed, tag-team·ing, tag-teamsverb
intransitive- To wrestle as a member of a tag team.
- To work together at an activity by taking turns.
verb
transitive- To work together at (an activity) by taking turns.
- To question or reprimand (someone) by taking turns.
- Slang To have sex with (a person) by taking turns.
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Adjective
(not comparable)
- 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.
Anagrams
- meta tag, metatag
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