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• tea bag
  tea bag

  noun

  a container of thin paper or cloth holding a measured amount of tea leaves for making an individual serving of tea.
• tea-bag
  tea-bag

  verb (used with object)

  to place one's scrotum in the mouth of (one's sexual partner).

tea bag

¹ American  

noun

• tea bags
  plural

1. a container of thin paper or cloth holding a measured amount of tea leaves for making an individual serving of tea.

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tea-bag ² American  

[tee-bag] / ˈtiˌbæg /

verb (used with object)

Slang.

tea-bagged, tea-bagging

1. to place one's scrotum in the mouth of (one's sexual partner).

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tea bag British  

noun

1. a small bag of paper or cloth containing tea leaves, infused in boiling water to make tea

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Usage

What does tea-bag mean? Tea-bagging is the act of placing one's testicles in the mouth of another person, often repeatedly, raising and lowering it like a person dipping a tea bag. Content warning: the following sections include further references to sexual content, which is involved in the history and use of the slang term.

Other Word Forms

Noun Inflected Forms

• tea bags
  plural

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Etymology

Origin of tea bag¹

First recorded in 1900–05

Origin of tea-bag²

From its resemblance to dipping a tea bag in a cup of hot water

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Example Sentences

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The service said in some cases parents had been going without food so their children could eat, or were making items like one tea bag last a week.

From BBC ● May 14, 2025

Jurado swirled around a Rooibos tea bag with a tag read, “Your Actions Prove Your Greatness.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 14, 2024

Rant to those who charge $4 for hot water and a tea bag!

From Seattle Times ● Sep. 17, 2023

That way, no one touches the tea bag except you, and you are safe because we know you have washed your hands more than enough times.

From Salon ● Jun. 19, 2023

I tied a string around the neck of the cloth, making a tea bag, then placed a kettle on the stove.

From "Moon Over Manifest" by Clare Vanderpool

Instead she moved to London to become a writer, working a series of “really awful” day jobs, including one in a tea-bag factory.

From New York Times ● Apr. 2, 2023

The idea for the tea-bag protest probably made its way to his in box, indirectly, from a message board attached to the libertarian financial-news blog Market Ticker.

From Salon ● May 14, 2010

Then the hero discovers, courtesy of McDowall's tea-bag reading, that he is pregnant.

From Time Magazine Archive

He'd get the sugar first, and then, if it looked good enough, the flour-bag would come out, then the tea-bag.

From Children of the Bush by Henry Lawson

“Yes, mum,” said the man obediently; and as it was placed by the fire, Aunt Georgie plunged her tea-bag in, and held it beneath the boiling water with a piece of stick.

From The Dingo Boys The Squatters of Wallaby Range by W. S. (Walter S.) Stacey

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