tea-bag

¹

[tee-bag]

verb (used with object)

Slang.

tea-bagged, tea-bagging 

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

tea bag

²

noun

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

tea bag

noun

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

Word History and Origins

Origin of tea-bag¹

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

Origin of tea-bag²

First recorded in 1900–05

Example Sentences

It quoted the head of the Coast Guard's narcotics unit saying that similar discoveries of "tea bag drugs" have been made in Pohang, another city in South Korea, and Tsushima island in Japan.

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Homegrown hacks - tea bags in shoes, sprinkling baking soda, spraying deodorant - weren't cutting it.

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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.

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“You can also ask for the tea bag on the side, if you want the water to cool down for a minute, just so you're at a better brewing temperature.”

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While tea bags may seem an unusual instrument to measure this phenomenon, it is a proven proxy method to measure carbon release from soil into the atmosphere.

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When To Use

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.