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tea-bag

tea-bag is the alternative form of teabag.

Meaning of teabag

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.
    • He put a spoon and teabag on the saucer and placed it before Mr. McManus.1980, Walter Stovall, The Minus Pool, page 10

See all 4 meanings of teabag

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.

Forms of tea-bag

Noun
pluraltea-bags
Verb
third-person singular presenttea-bags
present participletea-bagging
past participletea-bagged
pasttea-bagged

Questions about tea-bag

What does tea-bag mean?
Tea-bag means to dunk into the sea or another body of water.
What is tea-bag the alternative form of?
Tea-bag is the alternative form of teabag.
What part of speech is tea-bag?
Tea-bag is a verb.
What is the past tense of tea-bag?
The past tense of tea-bag is tea-bagged.

Words near tea-bag in the dictionary

  1. tea whisks
  2. tea yellows
  3. tea'd
  4. tea-and-toaster
  5. tea-and-toasters
  6. tea-bag
  7. tea-bagged
  8. tea-bagging
  9. tea-bags
  10. tea-board
  11. tea-boards

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Adapted from Wiktionary: tea-bag (page history and authors); teabag (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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