team colors
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2.0
- noun
- US
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colores del equipo
- I want to work in my junior high and high school sports team colors, the purple and gold.
- wearing team colors
- uniforms and team colors
- new team colors
Examples
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Fans proudly displayed their team colors by wearing jerseys and waving flags at the stadium.
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He buys shoes, hats, t-shirts, jerseys, and um, ponchos in the team colors.
Blog text (2) -
He's wearing their team colors.
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Students on each team were encouraged to wear team colors, perform a team cheer, execute daily roles, and work together to earn team points.
Academic text (2014) -
"Unfortunately, they didn't do much homework on the team colors," says Richard Craig.
Blog text (32) -
The players wore their team colors during the championship game to show their support.
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The event organizers requested that all attendees come dressed in their team colors to create a festive atmosphere.
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning 'the specific set of colors representing a particular sports team' is directly derivable from the constituents: 'team' (a group representing an organization) and 'colors' (hues used as identifying symbols). This possessive/compositional noun phrase pattern is regular in English and cross-linguistically common, so a B1 learner who knows both words will readily infer the MWE meaning.
Etymology
Team colors comes from sports uniforms: a team picks a small set of colors for jerseys, flags and banners, and fans wear them so you can see who they support. So, 'team colors' means the official set of colors that 'represent' a team.