double-team

Meaning

1. verb In sports involving offensive and defensive teams, to use two defensive players to guard against the movements of a single offensive player.
2. verb To deal with or handle a task or individual person by using a team of two people.
3. verb To double penetrate someone.
4. verb To gang up on someone, as a group of two.

Similar words

double team triple-team tag-team double up double-dip turn two cover defend double-bank screen

Word family

double-teamed double-teaming double-teams