double-team

See also: double team

English

double-team (third-person singular simple present double-teams, present participle double-teaming, simple past and past participle double-teamed)

(transitive, sports) In sports involving offensive and defensive teams, to use two defensive players to guard against the movements of a single offensive player.
- 1949, "Stop St. Louis!," Time, 24 Jan.:
  On any given night, Pivotman Macauley was good for at least 18 points a game. But because L.I.U. double-teamed him (he had two men guarding him), he didn't bother to shoot much.
(transitive, by extension) To deal with or handle a task or individual person by using a team of two people.
- 2008, Kathy Kiely, "Clinton, Obama step up attacks at South Carolina debate," USA Today, 21 Jan. (retrieved 6 Jan. 2009):
  Obama . . . accused the Clintons of double-teaming him on the campaign trail. "I can't tell who I'm running against sometimes," he said.
(slang, transitive, of two people) To double penetrate someone.
- 2015. Double Lucky. Jackie Collins. 2015.
  He and M.J. had double-teamed her—with her consent—on a drunken prom night.
(slang, transitive) To gang up on someone.
- 2012. Out of Her Shadow.Eleanor Choukas Anderson. Pg. 557.
  one day they double- teamed her into a closet and threatened to lock her in if she didn't show them her privates.

sports

extended, non-sports meaning