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

Examples of tag team in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

Jax is a two-time WWE Women’s Champ, winning it for the first time at WrestleMania 34, and a three-time WWE tag team champ (with Shayna Baszler twice and Lash Legend once). — James Varsallone, Miami Herald, 11 Nov. 2026

Losing the tag team titles might be a wake-up call for The Vision to get back to business. — Ryan Gaydos Outkick, FOXNews.com, 7 Nov. 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

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

Word History

Etymology

tag entry 4

First Known Use

1952, in the meaning defined at sense 1

Rhymes for tag team

• abeam
• airstream
• bloodstream
• daydream
• downstream
• esteem
• extreme
• grapheme
• hakim
• hornbeam
• lexeme
• mainstream