teabaglike

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English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

teabag +‎ -like

Adjective[edit]

teabaglike (comparative more teabaglike, superlative most teabaglike)

  1. (rare) Resembling or characteristic of a teabag.
    • 2008 February 6, Dennis Hevesi, “Ernesto Illy, Chairman of Coffee Company, Is Dead at 82”, in New York Times[1]:
      The company started packaging coffee for home consumption in 1965, and in 1972 was the first to sell it in teabaglike pods for making single cups.
    • 2008, Harvey Blatt, America's food: what you don't know about what you eat, page 113:
      The chicken nuggets are made by pushing chicken carcasses through a giant teabaglike screen to produce a slurry of protein. To this slurry is often added large amounts of water and soya proteins to restore the texture of meat...