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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

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

Example Sentences

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tea bag tea-bag

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

One dentist I worked for instructed patients after extractions to bite on a wet tea bag if bleeding continued.

From Seattle Times ● Oct. 25, 2023

Tea works, especially when you can order a cup of hot water and rip the packaging off the tea bag yourself.

From Salon ● Jun. 19, 2023

In the kitchen, the eggs I'd left him were untouched in their bowl, the tea bag dry in the cup.

From "We Are Okay" by Nina LaCour

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 Lawson, Henry

"That's the tea-bag, and that's the sugar-bag, and that's the flour-bag."

From While the Billy Boils by Lawson, Henry