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

The 946 – a faction that includes Royce Keys, Lucien Price, Bronco Nima and Jaida Parker – had a men’s six-man tag team match against Jey and Jimmy Uso and Solo Sikoa. — Ryan Gaydos Outkick, FOXNews.com, 13 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

Takahashi referred to their tag team as Bakusai, which was trademarked by WWE in June. — Alfred Konuwa, Forbes.com, 21 Aug. 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