We haven't tag-teamed in the ring for quite a while.2010, Hulk Hogan, My Life Outside the Ring, →ISBN:
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:
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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:
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Broadly To 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:
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To alternate working with someone else in order to accomplish a task directed at (someone).
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:
Meanwhile, the agency can pursue the network, and you guys tag-team them.2008, Anastasia Brown, Brian Mansfield, Make Me a Star, →ISBN:
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Slang, Vulgar To have sex with (someone) in a group with one or more other people.
Personal: Three horny men looking to tag-team young afro-american virgin.1996, Fred Schultz, Education 96/97, →ISBN, page 151:
I get women who want me to tag-team them, and stuff like that.1996, Vanity Fair - Issues 428-430, page 112:
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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:
tag team
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UK /ˈtæɡ tiːm/ · US /ˈtæɡ ˌtim/
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.
Broadly Two or more people acting alternately to accomplish some task.
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."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:
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.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:
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Also, Broadly, Slang, Vulgar 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.
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".[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:
"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.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:
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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.1993, Imre Salusinszky, Gerald Murnane, Melbourne, Vic.: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 26:
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.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:
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.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:
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.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: