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teabagger en · NOUN

Pronunciation

Etymology

From tea + bagger or teabag + -er.

Meanings

  1. A machine that packages tea into teabags.
    • The equipment used, adapted from a Pneumatic Scale Co. teabagger, is a high-speed, horizontal form-fill-seal machine. The web is filled with ground coffee, over-packaged and at the same time flushed with an inert gas. 1977, Food Science and Technology Abstracts, volume 9, page 33:
  2. (dated, derogatory) An upper-class participant in motor racing.
    • […]and for the great Parnelli Jones, and in the process telling off Colin Chapman-all superior upper-class teabagger manners and treachery 1999, Joe Scalzo, Indianapolis Roadsters, page 41:
  3. (slang, vulgar) A person who practices teabagging, i.e., the sexual act of inserting the scrotum into someone's mouth.
  4. (derogatory, often) An affiliate of the Tea Party movement, or a supporter of its protests and/or ideology.

Forms

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tea-bagger alternative lexicographic
teabaggers Number=Plur lexicographic

Synonyms

teahadist (Tea Party movement member) · teatard (Tea Party movement member)