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Definition of Double-team
1. Verb. Cover with two defensive players.
Definition of Double-team
1. Verb. (transitive sports) In sports involving offensive and defensive teams, to use two defensive players to guard against the movements of a single offensive player. ¹
2. Verb. (transitive by extension) To deal with or handle a task or individual person by using a team of two people. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Double-team
Literary usage of Double-team
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Journal and proceedings by New York (N.Y.). Board of Estimate and Apportionment (1888)
"William Mooney, One Hundred and Thirty-seventh street and Third avenue, Double
Team James Nugent, Springhurst, Double Team Simon Murphy, Springhurst, ..."
2. The North Pole: Its Discovery in 1909 Under the Auspices of the Peary Arctic by Robert Edwin Peary (1910)
"... and drawn by a double team of dogs, we pushed on an estimated distance of ten
miles. While we traveled, the sky cleared, and at the end of the journey, ..."
3. Centennial Celebration: An Account of the Municipal Celebration of the One by John Thomas Hull, Portland (Me.) (1886)
"JB DONNELL & Co. sent one double team, adorned with flags and buntings, ...
DANA & Co. had one double team with frame covered with bags of Eureka salt—one ..."
4. Trial of John H. Surratt in the Criminal Court for the District of Columbia by John Harrison Surratt, George Purnell Fisher (1867)
"Q. What was the double team? A. I cannot put them together now ... Q. Can you
state what color the double team was ? A. I do not recollect. ..."
5. Elementary Arithmetic by James William Nicholson (1910)
"Estimate labor at $1 per day; single team, $l; double team, $1.75; man, ...
How many days will it take to plow it at 2 A. per day for man and double team ? ..."
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