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sweet tea

sweet tea noun: sweetened tea.

Noun

sweet tea (usually uncountable, plural sweet teas)

  1. (usually) Sweetened tea.
    1. (Southern US, especially, usually) Iced tea supersaturated with sugar by adding it during or just after boiling the water.

Forms of sweet tea

pluralsweet teas

Questions about sweet tea

What does sweet tea mean?
Sweet tea means sweetened tea.
What part of speech is sweet tea?
Sweet tea is a noun.
What is the plural of sweet tea?
The plural of sweet tea is sweet teas.

Words near sweet tea in the dictionary

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  2. Sweet syndrome
  3. sweet talk
  4. sweet talker
  5. sweet talkers
  6. sweet tea
  7. sweet teas
  8. sweet thing
  9. sweet thirteen
  10. sweet thirteens
  11. sweet thorn

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