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tag-team en · ADJ

Pronunciation

• /ˈtæɡˌtim/ (General-American)
• (Australia) audio
• /ˈtæɡtiːm/ (Received-Pronunciation)

Etymology

Probably from tag team (noun).

Meanings

1. (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.

tag-team en · VERB

Pronunciation

• /ˈtæɡˌtim/ (General-American)
• (Australia) audio
• /ˈtæɡtiːm/ (Received-Pronunciation)

Etymology

Probably from tag team (noun).

Meanings

1. (intransitive) To wrestle as part of a tag team (sense 1).
   • Life, Death, and Professional Wrestling David Shoemaker. He had some success, ... He tag-teamed with Tony Atlas (known variously as "Black Superman" and "Mr. USA") and, later, Andre the Giant, to some success. 2013, David Shoemaker, The Squared Circle: Life, Death, and Professional Wrestling, →ISBN, page 127:
   • I suggested, to no avail, that WWF (nature) should sponsor a fluffy black-and-white wrestler called the Panda, tag-teamed with the Game Warden. 2012, Paul Spencer Sochaczewski, An Inordinate Fondness for Beetles, →ISBN, page 171:
   • We haven't tag-teamed in the ring for quite a while. 2010, Hulk Hogan, My Life Outside the Ring, →ISBN:
2. (broadly, intransitive) To alternate working with someone else in order to accomplish a task.
   • Our spouses and children have become friends, and we have tag-teamed as presenters in local settings and at national conferences. 2010, Mark J. Allman, Tobias L. Winright, After the Smoke Clears: The Just War Tradition and Post War Justice, →ISBN:
3. (transitive) To alternate working with someone else in order to accomplish a task directed at (someone).
   • But Andrew and Blieu wouldn't hear of such a thing, so they tag-teamed her about staying on until finally, weakened from their constant badgering, Rachel couldn't take it any longer. 2002, Katrina Antoinette Croswell, To Whom Much Is Given: A Novel, →ISBN, page 19:
   • Meanwhile, the agency can pursue the network, and you guys tag-team them. 2008, Anastasia Brown, Brian Mansfield, Make Me a Star, →ISBN:
4. (slang, transitive, vulgar) To have sex with (someone) in a group with one or more other people.
   • A strip-club owner reported that several AFL players once struck a deal with a stripper to tag-team sex with her, and offered extra money to urinate and defecate on her as part of their 'bonding' (Halliday 2004). 2013, Deb Waterhouse-Watson, Athletes, Sexual Assault, and Trials by Media: Narrative Immunity, →ISBN:
   • I get women who want me to tag-team them, and stuff like that. 1996, Vanity Fair - Issues 428-430, page 112:
   • Personal: Three horny men looking to tag-team young afro-american virgin. 1996, Fred Schultz, Education 96/97, →ISBN, page 151:

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