tea bag
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noun
a container of thin paper or cloth holding a measured amount of tea leaves for making an individual serving of tea.
Nearby words
- te score,
- te waipounamu,
- te-hee,
- tea,
- tea act,
- tea ball,
- tea basket,
- tea biscuit,
- tea break,
- tea caddy
Origin of tea bag
First recorded in 1900–05
tea-bag
[ tee-bag ]
/ ˈtiˌbæg /
verb (used with object), tea-bagged, tea-bag·ging. Slang.
to place one's scrotum in the mouth of (one's sexual partner).
Origin of tea-bag
from its resemblance to dipping a tea bag in a cup of hot water
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The teabag parties are easy to ridicule and the attempt to caricature Obama as a socialist is unhinged.
tea bag
noun
a small bag of paper or cloth containing tea leaves, infused in boiling water to make tea
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teabag
also tea-bag 1857, a small permeable packet for holding loose tea, from tea + bag. As a sex act, by 2000.
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