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dou·ble-team

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Princeton's WordNet

  1. double-teamverb

    cover with two defensive players

Wiktionary

  1. double-teamverb

    In sports involving offensive and defensive teams, to use two defensive players to guard against the movements of a single offensive player.

  2. double-teamverb

    To deal with or handle a task or individual person by using a team of two people.

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  1. double-team

    Double-team refers to a strategy or tactic in sports and competitive activities, where two or more participants jointly defend or confront a single opponent to prevent them from gaining an advantage, scoring points, or making significant progress. This action can also extend metaphorically to any situation where two or more individuals unite in their efforts against a single person or a single issue.

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of double-team in Chaldean Numerology is: 5

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of double-team in Pythagorean Numerology is: 8

Examples of double-team in a Sentence

  1. Old School:

    Mitch True love is hard to find, sometimes you think you have true love and then you catch the early flight home from San Diego and a couple of nude people jump out of your bathroom blindfolded like a goddamn magic show ready to double team your girlfriend...

  2. Luka Garza:

    I think, like a lot of teams, they were sending a lot of heat toward me, i didn’t do a good enough job dealing with the double-team in the second half.


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  • déan marcáil bheirteIrish

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