tag team
Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
tag team
▶noun
- 1 a pair of wrestlers who fight as a team, taking the ring alternately.
- 2 informal, chiefly N. Amer. a pair of people working together.
– origin from the fact that one wrestler cannot enter the ring until the other tags or touches hands with them on leaving.
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