tag team
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈtæɡ tiːm/
ipa: /ˈtæɡ ˌtim/
Forms: form: tag teams
Etymology: Probably from tag (“children’s chasing game in which one player (known as ‘it’) attempts to touch another, who then becomes ‘it’; (baseball) instance of touching the baserunner with the ball or the ball in a gloved hand to rule him ‘out’”) + team.
Senses: topics: government
hobbies
lifestyle
martial-arts
military
politics
professional-wrestling
sports
war
wrestling
synonyms: word: TT
glosses: A group of wrestlers who work together as a team. Only one is in the ring at any given time, and they change places by "tagging" each other with a gesture like a high five.
examples: text: According to Ms. Haney, "Heather and I work best as a tag team. We are aware of our confrontational weaknesses and limits, and use each other to fill in the needed strengths."
ref: 2004, Glenda Beamon Crawford, “Believing Less is More and Positive is Better”, in Managing the Adolescent Classroom: Lessons From Outstanding Teachers, Thousand Oaks, Calif.; London: Corwin Press, Sage Publications, →ISBN, page 104:
text: She says her secret to her success really isn't a secret: by surrounding herself with other people who cared about and supported her, there was no way she could fail. Whether your vision for the future is starting a rock band, opening an art gallery, designing a new videogame, or losing forty pounds and keeping it off, your tag team will make reaching that vision easier and more likely.
ref: 2007, Jason Ryan Dorsey, “Secrets to Building Your Real-world Dream Team”, in My Reality Check Bounced! The Twentysomething’s Guide to Cashing In on Your Real-world Dreams, New York, N.Y.: Broadway Books, →ISBN, page 111:
glosses: Two or more people acting alternately to accomplish some task.
examples: text: After downing a few drinks, the two Marines had vaginal and anal intercourse with her simultaneously, then took turns with her as the other watched. They referred to the former practice as "scrogging"; they called the later activity "tag team".
ref: [1989, Ronald Kessler, “Happy Birthday”, in Moscow Station: How the KGB Penetrated the American Embassy, New York, N.Y.: Scribner, →ISBN, part I, page 199:
text: "He's the rapper J [Jalil Hutchins]/I'm the rapper Ecs [Ecstasy, i.e., John Fletcher]/We're known for playing tag-team sex," they declare. For guys who dedicate their albums to their wives and first loves, this is a surprising revelation.
ref: 1991, Havelock Nelson, Michael A. Gonzales, “Whodini”, in Bring the Noise: A Guide to Rap Music and Hip-hop Culture, New York, N.Y.: Harmony Books, →ISBN, pages 280–281:
text: Adrian's own auto-erotic fantasies take him, for several nights of each week, to an imaginary America—a now fully eroticised version of the same space in Tamarisk Row—where he copulates frenziedly with tag-teams of female film-stars.
ref: 1993, Imre Salusinszky, Gerald Murnane, Melbourne, Vic.: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 26:
text: Men on campus began to view my sexuality as some sort of kinky sex game in which they either wanted to be the referee or a tag-team partner.
ref: 2000 April, Sapphrodykie [pseudonym], “The Iconoclast”, in Kim Howard, Annie Stevens, editors, Out & About Campus: Personal Accounts by Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, & Transgendered College Students, Los Angeles, Calif.: Alyson Books, →ISBN, page 136:
text: He merely wants to obtain some quantitative information about the rate at which married couples have sexual intercourse and he is not interested in passing judgment or evaluating their techniques or even serving as a tag-team member in any unique marital games.
ref: 2001, Jefferson Hane Weaver, “Sex in America”, in What are the Odds?: The Chances of Extraordinary Events in Everyday Life, Amherst, N.Y.: Prometheus Books, →ISBN, page 38:
text: A male that sees another male ahead of him going up the hill speeds up to overtake him, "just in case" a female actually is there. Hence the apparent tag teams! Many insects, including both diurnal and nocturnal moths, use airborne sex-attractant chemicals (pheromones) to facilitate mate location.
ref: 2007, Arthur M. Shapiro, Field Guide to Butterflies of the San Francisco Bay and Sacramento Valley Regions (California Natural History Guides; 92), Berkeley, Calif.: University of California Press, →ISBN, page 56:
text: I'm considering an alternative therapy and might try losing myself in deep erotic abandonment with a squad of muscular, tanned firemen. […] Properly rude sexual experimentation. Tag-team intercourse, no holds barred physical gratification with no thought to the consequences.
ref: 2008, Mike Maddox, chapter 3, in Jonathan Oliver, editor, The Worm that Wasn’t (Dreams of Inan), Oxford, Oxfordshire: Abaddon Books, →ISBN:
glosses: An act of two or more people having sex with one person who is the focus of the sexual activity; a gangbang (sense 1); also, the people having sex with the person who is the focus of the sexual activity regarded as a group.
Derived terms: word: tag-team