tag team

noun

Professional Wrestling.

1. a team of two wrestlers who compete one at a time against either member of another such team, the wrestlers in the ring changing places with those outside by tagging them.

Word History and Origins

Origin of tag team¹

First recorded in 1950–55

Example Sentences

Lynch, the Women’s Intercontinental Champion, returned to WWE from a year-long absence, teaming with Lyra Valkyria to win the WWE Women’s Tag Team Championship at WrestleMania 41 in April.

From Los Angeles Times

They’re a tag team that uses the new film’s setup of two innocents trapped in a house with a violent stranger to hammer on our nervous system in two ways.

From Los Angeles Times

Lynch's return was a winning effort, picking up the Women's Tag Team Championships along with Lyra Valkyria, defeating champions Liv Morgan and Raquel Rodriguez.

From BBC

Gareth Anscombe was held off the floor after running into a tag team of Will Stuart and Tommy Freeman.

From BBC

The task facing Starmer - the second strand of the European tag team of leaders to visit Washington, after President Emmanuel Macron on Monday - is to attempt to mould President Donald Trump's position.

From BBC