double-team
to defend against or block (an opposing player) by using two players, as in football or basketball: By double-teaming the end the safety men left the other receiver in the open.
to use two people in the handling of: The company is double-teaming the more complicated jobs with both a scientist and a group manager.
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How to use double-team in a sentence
And one man raised his gun and shot one of the horses in the double team, which carried Mrs. Hopkins and Mary.
Mary and I | Stephen Return RiggsThe third or fourth shell pitched clean into a labouring waggon with its double team of eight horses.
From Capetown to Ladysmith | G. W. SteevensThat double team had set out to do it quite obediently, but Vosh got matters straightened very quickly.
Winter Fun | William O. StoddardI could scarcely keep my hands off them only I was afeared they would double team on me.
Watch Yourself Go By | Al. G. FieldMr. Charles H. Judd met us with his double team about five miles out, and we lunched at Mr. Moffatt's.
Scenes in the Hawaiian Islands and California | Mary Evarts Anderson
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