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tea pad

tea pad noun: a hash-bar; a place to buy or smoke marijuana.

Noun

tea pad (plural tea pads)

  1. (US, obsolete, slang) A hash-bar; a place to buy or smoke marijuana.
    • Took my public-school training in three jails and a plenty of pool-rooms, went to college in a gang of tea-pads, earned my Ph.D. in more creep joints and speakeasies and dancehalls than the law allows.1946, Milton “Mezz” Mezzrow, Bernard Wolfe, “Don’t Cry, Ma”, in Really the Blues, New York, N.Y.: Random House, book 1 (1899–1923: A Nothin’ but a Child), page 3

Forms of tea pad

pluraltea pads

Questions about tea pad

What does tea pad mean?
Tea pad means a hash-bar; a place to buy or smoke marijuana.
What part of speech is tea pad?
Tea pad is a noun.
What is the plural of tea pad?
The plural of tea pad is tea pads.

Words near tea pad in the dictionary

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  2. tea oil plants
  3. tea oils
  4. tea olive
  5. tea olives
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  8. Tea Partier
  9. Tea Partiers
  10. tea parties
  11. tea party

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