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.
First recorded in 1900–05
From its resemblance to dipping a tea bag in a cup of hot water
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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
A thoroughly British storm in a teacup is coming to the boil after a leading brand said it has devised a tea bag it claims can brew the perfect cuppa in 60 seconds.
From BBC ● Sep. 14, 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
At the stove, Mia pretended to busy herself with opening a tea bag.
From "Little Fires Everywhere" by Celeste Ng
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
“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 Stacey, W. S. (Walter S.)
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