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teabagging

teabagging is the present participle and gerund of teabag.

Noun

teabagging (countable and uncountable, plural teabaggings)

  1. (slang, vulgar) The act of a man inserting his scrotum in another person's mouth, in a similar motion as when a tea bag is juiced into a mug.
    • Oh, I thought you meant "teabagging", when you hold a guy's balls in your mouth.2003 August 17, Jenny Bicks, “A Woman's Right to Shoes”, in Sex and the City, season 6, episode 9, spoken by Samantha
  2. (vulgar) The act of simulating the above sex act in a video game (usually by crouching).
    • They are infamous in gaming for their glitchy behaviors, leading to gamer innovations such as teabagging ...2019, Nina B Huntemann, How to Play Video Games, NYU Press, →ISBN, page 145
    • There are no penalties for teabagging, however, and other informal forms of hazing or humiliation.2013, David Grondin, War Beyond the Battlefield, Routledge, →ISBN

Meaning of teabag

Verb

teabag (third-person singular simple present teabags, present participle teabagging, simple past and past participle teabagged)

  1. (slang, transitive, vulgar) To lower one's scrotum into the mouth of another person, or onto the face or head of another person.
  2. (vulgar) To sit or crouch repeatedly on the head of another player's character after they are dead, which is a reference to the above sex act.
    • The good news is, you don't have to play 10,000 matches to learn to hold your own against those obnoxious, teabagging 9-year-olds anymore!2007, The Official Xbox Magazine
  3. Of a kite, to have enough lift to repeatedly lift the kite-flyer slightly off the ground, then back down, then back up, etc., in the manner of dunking a teabag into water.

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Forms of teabagging

pluralteabaggings

Words formed from teabagging

Questions about teabagging

What does teabagging mean?
Teabagging means the act of a man inserting his scrotum in another person's mouth, in a similar motion as when a tea bag is juiced into a mug.
What is teabagging the present participle and gerund of?
Teabagging is the present participle and gerund of teabag.
What part of speech is teabagging?
Teabagging is a noun.
What is the plural of teabagging?
The plural of teabagging is teabaggings.

Words near teabagging in the dictionary

  1. teabag
  2. teabag folding
  3. teabagged
  4. teabagger
  5. teabaggers
  6. teabagging
  7. teabaggings
  8. teabaggy
  9. Teabagistan
  10. teabaglike
  11. teabags

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