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tea pads

tea pads is the plural of tea pad.

Meaning of tea pad

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

Questions about tea pads

What is tea pads the plural of?
Tea pads is the plural of tea pad.

Words near tea pads in the dictionary

  1. tea oil plants
  2. tea oils
  3. tea olive
  4. tea olives
  5. tea pad
  6. tea pads
  7. Tea Partier
  8. Tea Partiers
  9. tea parties
  10. tea party
  11. tea pet

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