tag team

noun

1
: a team of two or more professional wrestlers who spell each other during a match
2
: two or more people working in association toward the same goal
usually hyphenated when used attributively

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Through his 26-year-long in-ring career, Michaels has won multiple titles, including the WWE Championship (three times), the World Heavyweight Championship, the Intercontinental Championship (three times), and six tag team championships. Daniel R. Depetris, Newsweek, 8 Dec. 2024 One night after a hellacious WarGames match, Iyo Sky was made to compete in a tag team match against Liv Morgan and Raquel Rodriguez. Alfred Konuwa, Forbes, 2 Dec. 2024 This event, an all-dojo best-of-three tag team competition, is pretty important for Miyagi-Do to win. Ben Rosenstock, Vulture, 16 Nov. 2024 Practice number nine on this sweaty Sunday — temperatures in the 90s and unrelenting humidity formed a miserable tag team — featured two such instances. Ben Standig, The Athletic, 5 Aug. 2024 See all Example Sentences for tag team 

Word History

Etymology

tag entry 4

First Known Use

1952, in the meaning defined at sense 1

Time Traveler
The first known use of tag team was in 1952

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“Tag team.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/tag%20team. Accessed 22 Dec. 2024.

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