Usually means: Two defenders guarding one player.
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We found 16 dictionaries that define the word double-team:

General (15 matching dictionaries)
  1. double-team: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. double-team: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. double-team: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. double-team: Vocabulary.com
  5. double-team: Wordnik
  6. double-team: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  7. double-team: Wiktionary
  8. double-team: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  9. double-team: Infoplease Dictionary
  10. double-team: Dictionary.com
  11. Double-team: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  12. double-team: Rhymezone
  13. double-team: Free Dictionary
  14. double-team: Mnemonic Dictionary
  15. double-team: Dictionary/thesaurus

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  1. double-team: Urban Dictionary

(Note: See double-teaming as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (double-team)

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.
verb:  (transitive, by extension) To deal with or handle a task or individual person by using a team of two people.
verb:  (transitive, slang, of two people) To double penetrate someone.
verb:  (transitive, slang) To gang up on someone, as a group of two.

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