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单词 double-team
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double-teamv.

Forms: see double adj.1 and adv. and team n.; also 1800s dubeld teamed (past tense, nonstandard).
Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: double adj.1, team n.
Etymology: < double adj.1 + team n.It is unclear whether the form dubeld teamed in quot. 18431 at sense 1 shows doubled adj. as first element or is rather influenced by the -ed ending of the second element. With sense 1 compare team n. 4c. With sense 2a compare team n. 4.
U.S.
1. intransitive. To combine two teams into one.
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1843 W. T. Newby Diary 27 Sept. in Oreg. Hist. Q. (1939) XL. 235 We crawsed..a smawl streem. Dubeld teamed & crawsed the hill.
1843 W. T. Newby Diary 28 Sept. in Oreg. Hist. Q. (1939) XL. 235 We continued up the creek..dubel teaming & passing the fork in 4 miles.
1934 H. Vines Green Thicket World 111 Often they had to double-team.
2.
a. intransitive. To bring double force to bear on (or upon) a person.
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1860 Congress. 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.
1865 M. B. Chesnut Diary 16 Feb. in C. V. Woodward Mary Chesnut's Civil War (1981) xxx. 716 Grant had double-teamed on Lee.
1904 T. Watson Bethany (1920) 197 On the next day we double-teamed on one section of his army.
b. With it: to act in combination.
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1884 ‘M. Twain’ Adventures Huckleberry Finn xix. 162 ‘Old man,’ says the young one, ‘I reckon we might double-team it together.’
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1933; most recently modified version published online December 2020).
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