crack team

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crack team (plural crack teams)

A highly functional, smooth-running team.
- 2012, Nancy L. Cohen, Delirium: The Politics of Sex in America, Catapult, →ISBN:
  Bush and Cheney put a crack team of lawyers and spin doctors into the Florida fight, while the Republican secretary of state, Katherine Harris, consistently interpreted Florida election law in ways favorable to Bush and adverse to Gore.
- 2013, Paul Ingrassia, Joseph B. White, Comeback: The Fall & Rise of the American Automobile Industry, Simon and Schuster, →ISBN:
  Pressed by pending U.S. clean-air regulations, a crack team of Honda engineers had been assigned to develop an engine that could satisfy the new law.

good team