tag team
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.
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How to use tag team in a sentence
The New Year’s Eve concert in Times Square enlivened the dinner and a brief tag team tournament in which I was shamefully beaten followed.
Locked up in the Land of Liberty: Part III | Yariel Valdés González | July 21, 2021 | Washington Blade“The Bolsheviks” were a tag team in the latter part of the decade, with one from Croatia and the other from America.
Some couples tag team—one working a day shift while the other works at night—so someone is always at home.
For Working Moms, One Sick Kid Can Spell Disaster | Danielle Shapiro | January 26, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTA complicated three-way tangle drew in Candy Crowley for an utterly outrageous effort to tag-team the governor.
NewsBusters was instantly typical: “Candy Crowley Disgraces Herself...Outrageous tag team Hit On Romney.”
Robert Shrum: Obama Had Everything On the Line and Delivered, While Romney Sputtered | Robert Shrum | October 17, 2012 | THE DAILY BEAST
The couple made no secret of their intentions as a political tag team.
Guatemala's Political Telenovela: First Couple Divorces | Mac Margolis | April 1, 2011 | THE DAILY BEAST
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