Tea Party

See also: tea party

English

Etymology

In reference to the Boston Tea Party of 1773, when American colonists dumped tea into Boston Harbor to protest taxation without representation.

Noun

Tea Party (plural Tea Parties)

1. Any of various independent, fiscally conservative political groups in the twenty-first-century United States.

Proper noun

the Tea Party

1. Various independent, fiscally conservative political groups in the twenty-first-century United States, taken as a whole.

Further reading

• Tea Party on Wikipedia.Wikipedia