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

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.

From Washington Blade

“The Bolsheviks” were a tag team in the latter part of the decade, with one from Croatia and the other from America.

From The Daily Beast

Some couples tag team—one working a day shift while the other works at night—so someone is always at home.

From The Daily Beast

A complicated three-way tangle drew in Candy Crowley for an utterly outrageous effort to tag-team the governor.

From The Daily Beast

NewsBusters was instantly typical: “Candy Crowley Disgraces Herself...Outrageous Tag Team Hit On Romney.”

From The Daily Beast

The couple made no secret of their intentions as a political tag team.

From The Daily Beast