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

India says that the 2030 Commonwealth Games will be a "full-fledged" multisport event, including disciplines it hopes to push into the Olympic programme, such as tag team sports kabaddi and kho kho.

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Working as a tag team, Cheney and Rumsfeld outmaneuvered the official National Security Council, headed by Bush’s highly educated but politically green national security adviser, Condoleezza Rice—and did the same to Bush’s secretary of state, now-retired Gen. Colin Powell.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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