teabag

See also: tea bag and tea-bag

English

teabags

Alternative forms

• tea bag

Etymology

tea +‎ bag

Pronunciation

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Noun

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.

Derived terms

• teabagger

Translations

sachet of tea

• Catalan: bossa de te f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 袋茶 (zh) (dàichá), 茶包 (zh) (chábāo), 袋泡茶 (dàipàochá)

• Danish: tebrev (da) n, tepose (da) c
• Dutch: theezakje (nl) n, theebuiltje (nl) n
• Estonian: please add this translation if you can
• Finnish: teepussi (fi)
• French: sachet de thé m, infusette (fr) f
• Georgian: ჩაის პაკეტი (čais ṗaḳeṭi)
• German: Teebeutel (de) m
• Hungarian: teafilter
• Icelandic: tepoki
• Irish: mála tae m
• Italian: sacchetto (di tè) m
• Japanese: ティーバッグ (tībaggu)
• Korean: 티백 (tibaek)
• Latvian: please add this translation if you can
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• Lithuanian: please add this translation if you can
• Macedonian: вреќичка f (vreḱička), кесичка f (kesička)
• Maori: tīpēke
• Mongolian: цайны уут (cajny uut)
• Norman: pouque à thée f
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: tepose m

  Nynorsk: tepose m

• Persian: چای کیسه‌ای (čây-e kise-i), تی بگ (ti bag)
• Polish: torebka herbaty f
• Portuguese: sachê m
• Russian: ча́йный паке́тик (ru) m (čájnyj pakétik)
• Spanish: bolsita de té f
• Swedish: tepåse (sv) c
• Ukrainian: чайний пакетик m (čajnyj paketyk)
• Welsh: bag te m

Verb

1. (transitive, vulgar, slang) To lower one’s testicles 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!

Translations

lower testicles into or onto another person

• Spanish: bajar los huevos
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