double-team

1. 1.

   cover with two defensive players

   Broadercover

   sport

Questions about double-team

What does double-team mean?

double-team means "cover with two defensive players".

How many syllables are in double-team?

double-team has 4 syllables and divides as do-u-ble--team under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.

Is double-team a common word?

double-team is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.