"tag-team" meaning in English

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Adjective

IPA: /ˈtæɡtiːm/ [Received-Pronunciation], /ˈtæɡˌtim/ [General-American] Audio: En-au-tag team.ogg
Etymology: Probably from tag team (noun). Head templates: {{en-adj|-}} tag-team (not comparable)
  1. Performed by two or more people or groups working alternately. Tags: not-comparable
    Sense id: en-tag-team-en-adj-hmxVmBUi Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, Entries with translation boxes, Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 34 27 17 18 4 Disambiguation of Entries with translation boxes: 31 28 14 14 12 Disambiguation of Pages with 1 entry: 39 33 10 11 7 Disambiguation of Pages with entries: 40 29 13 13 5

Verb

IPA: /ˈtæɡtiːm/ [Received-Pronunciation], /ˈtæɡˌtim/ [General-American] Audio: En-au-tag team.ogg Forms: tag-teams [present, singular, third-person], tag-teaming [participle, present], tag-teamed [participle, past], tag-teamed [past]
Etymology: Probably from tag team (noun). Head templates: {{en-verb}} tag-team (third-person singular simple present tag-teams, present participle tag-teaming, simple past and past participle tag-teamed)
  1. (intransitive)
    (professional wrestling) To wrestle as part of a tag team (sense 1).
    Tags: intransitive Categories (topical): Professional wrestling
    Sense id: en-tag-team-en-verb-WVNmKTWR Categories (other): Entries with translation boxes, Pages with 1 entry Disambiguation of Entries with translation boxes: 31 28 14 14 12 Disambiguation of Pages with 1 entry: 39 33 10 11 7 Topics: government, hobbies, lifestyle, martial-arts, military, politics, professional-wrestling, sports, war, wrestling
  2. (intransitive)
    (by extension) To alternate working with someone else in order to accomplish a task.
    Tags: broadly, intransitive
    Sense id: en-tag-team-en-verb-zEiyxZAG Categories (other): Entries with translation boxes, Pages with 1 entry Disambiguation of Entries with translation boxes: 31 28 14 14 12 Disambiguation of Pages with 1 entry: 39 33 10 11 7
  3. (transitive)
    To alternate working with someone else in order to accomplish a task directed at (someone).
    Tags: transitive
    Sense id: en-tag-team-en-verb-9cB8loxJ Categories (other): Entries with translation boxes, Pages with 1 entry Disambiguation of Entries with translation boxes: 31 28 14 14 12 Disambiguation of Pages with 1 entry: 39 33 10 11 7
  4. (transitive)
    (slang, vulgar) To have sex with (someone) in a group with one or more other people.
    Tags: slang, transitive, vulgar Categories (topical): Sex
    Sense id: en-tag-team-en-verb-SpW8RS1b Disambiguation of Sex: 2 3 6 7 82 Categories (other): Entries with translation boxes Disambiguation of Entries with translation boxes: 31 28 14 14 12

Inflected forms

Alternative forms

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          "ref": "1996, Vanity Fair - Issues 428-430, page 112:",
          "text": "I get women who want me to tag-team them, and stuff like that.",
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          "text": "I get women who want me to tag-team them, and stuff like that.",
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This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-12-21 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-12-04 using wiktextract (d8cb2f3 and 4e554ae). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.