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double-team, v. U.S.
1. [team n. 5.] intr. To combine two teams into one.
1843W. T. Newby Diary 27 Sept. in Oreg. Hist. Q. (1939) XL. 235 We crawsed..a smawl streem. Dubeld teamed & crawsed the hill. Ibid. 28 Sept., We continued up the creek..dubel teaming & passing the fork in 4 miles. 1934H. Vines Green Thicket World 111 Often they had to double-team.
2. [team n. 3.] intr. To bring double force to bear on (or upon) a person.
1860Congress. Globe 12 Jan. 424/2 In respect to the Senator's allusion to ‘double-teaming’ upon him..I do not exactly agree with my friend from Mississippi. 1865M. B. Chestnut Diary fr. Dixie (1905) 346 Grant had double-teamed on Lee. 1904T. Watson Bethany (1920) 197 On the next day we double-teamed on one section of his army.
b. With it: to act in combination.
1884‘Mark Twain’ Huck. Finn xix. 183 ‘Old man,’ said the young one, ‘I reckon we might double-team it together.’ |