Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

tag team

/ˈtæɡ ˌtim/

Word Rarity Uncommon

Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.41 in modern English

Syllables: tag team
IPA: /ˈtæɡ ˌtim/

10

Scrabble Score

7

Letters

1

Syllables

5

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

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.

noun

Two or more people acting alternately to accomplish some task.

noun

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.

Slang

verb

Alternative form of tag-team.

Example Sentences

"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.""
"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."
"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"."
""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."
"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."
"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."

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.

Regional Pronunciation

American English: /ˈtæɡ ˌtim/
British English: /ˈtæɡ tiːm/

Usage

Slang

Inflected Forms

tag teams (plural) tag teams (present, singular) tag teaming (participle, present) tag teamed (participle, past) tag teamed (past)

Phrases

tag-team

Synonyms

TT

Homonyms

tag-team

Questions

How do you pronounce tag team?: The recorded pronunciation is /ˈtæɡ ˌtim/.
What does tag team mean?: 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.
Where does tag team come from?: 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.

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