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

Now, the Motor City Machine Guys, and AEW for that matter, have a chance at a redo, and if AEW can bring in both New Day and MCMG, that will instantly make its tag team division much more interesting. — Blake Oestriecher, Forbes.com, 26 July 2026

The big-ticket match will be a tag team brawl among CM Punk and Cody Rhodes and Gunther and Sami Zayn. — Ryan Gaydos, FOXNews.com, 18 July 2026

From the effortless hair to her and Law Roach’s iconic tag team approach to method dressing, to her ethereal, glowy makeup, I am sat and eating up every bit of it. — Reece Andavolgyi, InStyle, 16 July 2026

Matthew Goode is set to return as DCI Carl Morck alongside his rag-tag team of Alexej Manvelov as Akram Salim, Leah Byrne as DC Rose Dickson and Jamie Sives as DS James Hardy. — Ellise Shafer, Variety, 25 June 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