tag team

noun

1
: a team of two or more professional wrestlers who spell each other during a match
2
: two or more people working in association toward the same goal
—usually hyphenated when used before another noun

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Bayley and Valkyria were tag team partners and failed to capture the women’s tag team titles from Brie Bella and Paige back in June. — Ryan Gaydos Outkick, FOXNews.com, 27 Oct. 2026 Still, the Stearns-Counsell tag team, and then GM Matt Arnold and manager Pat Murphy, helped the Brewers make the postseason in eight of the last nine years. — Paul Sullivan, Chicago Tribune, 18 Oct. 2026 Allin and Sting never lost the belts as Sting officially retired from pro wrestling as an AEW tag team champion. — James Varsallone, Miami Herald, 8 Oct. 2026 The rag-tag team of five had gone from writing its first line of code to joining Y Combinator’s summer 2010 cohort in the same year, soon building a company valuable enough to sell to LinkedIn. — Emma Burleigh, Fortune, 4 Oct. 2026 See All Example Sentences for tag team

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tag entry 4

First Known Use

1952, in the meaning defined at sense 1

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The first known use of tag team was in 1952

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“Tag team.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/tag%20team. Accessed 28 Oct. 2026.

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