tea bag
See also: teabag and tea-bag
English
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tea bags
Alternative forms
- teabag
Noun
tea bag (plural tea bags)
- A small porous bag, holding tea leaves or the herbal equivalent; used to brew a single cup of tea.
Verb
tea bag (third-person singular simple present tea bags, present participle tea bagging, simple past and past participle tea bagged)
- (intransitive, slang) To protest against those favoring increasing economic power of the US federal government (as part of the Tea Party).
- 2010, Whoopi Goldberg, Is It Just Me?: Or is it Nuts Out There?, page 14:
- Tea Party people are taking their tea bagging to the streets... People are scared. It's kooky.
- 2010, John O'Hara, A New American Tea Party, page xx:
- And they don't want to tea bag alone, if that's even possible. They want you to start tea bagging, too.
- 2011, Scott Hennen and Jim Denney, Grass Roots: A Commonsense Action Agenda for America, page 39:
- Garofalo, who had never been to a tea party, proceeded to explain with absolute authority what is inside the soul of the “tea bagging rednecks” (her words) at these rallies.
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Translations
small porous bag holding tea — see teabag
Anagrams
- atabeg