tea-bag

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See also: teabag and tea bag

English

Noun

tea-bag (plural tea-bags)

  1. Alternative spelling of teabag
    • 1990, Iain Crichton Smith, “The Old Woman, the Baby and Terry”, in Selected Stories, Manchester: Carcanet Press, →ISBN, page 144:
      The old lady had a pile of tea-bags, quarter pounds of butter, cheese, in a bag under the bed.
    • 1991, Frank Ronan, A Picnic in Eden, London: Sceptre, published 1992, →ISBN, book 2, pages 114–115:
      There was a table in the corner with an urn of hot water on it, and a bowl of tea-bags.
    • 1999, Susan Sallis, chapter 7, in The Keys to the Garden, London: Bantam Press, →ISBN, page 105:
      She put a tea-bag into a mug and poured on boiling water. He slid off her suit jacket and she stirred her tea-bag gently and then threw it in the bin.

Verb

tea-bag (third-person singular simple present tea-bags, present participle tea-bagging, simple past and past participle tea-bagged)

  1. (chiefly water sports) To dunk into the sea or another body of water
  2. Alternative spelling of teabag

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