tea-bag

plural tea-bags

1. alternativeAlternative form of teabag.

   There was a table in the corner with an urn of hot water on it, and a bowl of tea-bags.

   1991, Frank Ronan, A Picnic in Eden, London: Sceptre, published 1992, →ISBN, book 2, pages 114–115

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   The old lady had a pile of tea-bags, quarter pounds of butter, cheese, in a bag under the bed.

   1990, Iain Crichton Smith, “The Old Woman, the Baby and Terry”, in Selected Stories, Manchester: Carcanet Press, →ISBN, page 144

   She put a tea-bag into a mug and poured on boiling water. He slid off her suit jacket and she stirred her tea-bag gently and then threw it in the bin.

   1999, Susan Sallis, chapter 7, in The Keys to the Garden, London: Bantam Press, →ISBN, page 105

present singular third person tea-bags · participle present tea-bagging · participle past tea-bagged · past tea-bagged

1. chiefly water sportsTo dunk into the sea or another body of water.
2. alternativeAlternative form of teabag.