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tea fights

tea fights is the plural of tea fight.

Meaning of tea fight

Noun

tea fight (plural tea fights)

  1. (UK, slang) Synonym of bun fight (“formal tea party”).
    • There followed, while the uniform was being prepared, an interval of pure delight, during which Bobby took brevet-rank as a "man" at the women-swamped tennis-parties and tea-fights of the village, and, I dare say, had his joining-time been extended, would have fallen in love with several girls at...1889, Rudyard Kipling, “Only A Subaltern”, in Under the Deodars, Boston: The Greenock Press, published 1899, page 134
    Synonyms:
    bun fight

Questions about tea fights

What is tea fights the plural of?
Tea fights is the plural of tea fight.

Words near tea fights in the dictionary

  1. tea dances
  2. tea dress
  3. tea egg
  4. tea eggs
  5. tea fight
  6. tea fights
  7. tea garden
  8. tea gardens
  9. tea gown
  10. tea gowns
  11. Tea Green

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