Meaning of tag team | Babel Free
ˈtæɡ tiːmDefinitions
- 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.
- Two or more people acting alternately to accomplish some task.
- 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.
Equivalents
Examples
“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.”
“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.”
“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.”
“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.”
CEFR level
B2
Upper Intermediate
This word is part of the CEFR B2 vocabulary — upper intermediate level.
This word is part of the CEFR B2 vocabulary — upper intermediate level.
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