teabag

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From tea +‎ bag.

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Teabags

teabag (plural teabags)

  1. A cloth or paper sachet containing tea leaves or herbal tea, designed to act as an infuser when submerged in hot water.
    • 1980, Walter Stovall, The Minus Pool, page 10:
      He put a spoon and teabag on the saucer and placed it before Mr. McManus.

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teabag (third-person singular simple present teabags, present participle teabagging, simple past and past participle teabagged)

  1. (transitive, vulgar, slang) To lower one's scrotum into the mouth of another person, or onto the face or head of another person.
  2. (video games) To sit or crouch repeatedly on the head of another player's character after they are dead.
    • 2007, The Official Xbox Magazine:
      The good news is, you don't have to play 10,000 matches to learn to hold your own against those obnoxious, teabagging 9-year-olds anymore!
  3. (of a kite) To have enough lift to repeatedly lift the kite-flyer slightly off the ground, then back down, then back up, etc., in the manner of dunking a teabag into water.

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