tag-team

1. not comparablePerformed by two or more people or groups working alternately.

   Both of them worked, so they practiced a sort of tag-team parenting, swapping mornings and afternoons when the kids weren’t in school.

present singular third person tag-teams · participle present tag-teaming · participle past tag-teamed · past tag-teamed

1. intransitivegovernmentTo wrestle as part of a tag team (sense 1).

   We haven't tag-teamed in the ring for quite a while.

   2010, Hulk Hogan, My Life Outside the Ring, →ISBN

   2 more examples

   I suggested, to no avail, that WWF (nature) should sponsor a fluffy black-and-white wrestler called the Panda, tag-teamed with the Game Warden.

   2012, Paul Spencer Sochaczewski, An Inordinate Fondness for Beetles, →ISBN, page 171

   Life, Death, and Professional Wrestling David Shoemaker. He had some success, ... He tag-teamed with Tony Atlas (known variously as "Black Superman" and "Mr. USA") and, later, Andre the Giant, to some success.

   2013, David Shoemaker, The Squared Circle: Life, Death, and Professional Wrestling, →ISBN, page 127

2. broadlyintransitiveTo alternate working with someone else in order to accomplish a task.

   Our spouses and children have become friends, and we have tag-teamed as presenters in local settings and at national conferences.

   2010, Mark J. Allman, Tobias L. Winright, After the Smoke Clears: The Just War Tradition and Post War Justice, →ISBN

3. transitiveTo alternate working with someone else in order to accomplish a task directed at (someone).

   Meanwhile, the agency can pursue the network, and you guys tag-team them.

   2008, Anastasia Brown, Brian Mansfield, Make Me a Star, →ISBN

   1 more example

   But Andrew and Blieu wouldn't hear of such a thing, so they tag-teamed her about staying on until finally, weakened from their constant badgering, Rachel couldn't take it any longer.

   2002, Katrina Antoinette Croswell, To Whom Much Is Given: A Novel, →ISBN, page 19

4. slangtransitivevulgarTo have sex with (someone) in a group with one or more other people.

   I get women who want me to tag-team them, and stuff like that.

   1996, Vanity Fair - Issues 428-430, page 112

   2 more examples

   Personal: Three horny men looking to tag-team young afro-american virgin.

   1996, Fred Schultz, Education 96/97, →ISBN, page 151

   A strip-club owner reported that several AFL players once struck a deal with a stripper to tag-team sex with her, and offered extra money to urinate and defecate on her as part of their 'bonding' (Halliday 2004).

   2013, Deb Waterhouse-Watson, Athletes, Sexual Assault, and Trials by Media: Narrative Immunity, →ISBN