Meanings
plural teabaggers · alternative tea-bagger
- A machine that packages tea into teabags.
The equipment used, adapted from a Pneumatic Scale Co. teabagger, is a high-speed, horizontal form-fill-seal machine. The web is filled with ground coffee, over-packaged and at the same time flushed with an inert gas.
1977, Food Science and Technology Abstracts, volume 9, page 33 - datedderogatoryAn upper-class participant in motor racing.
[…]and for the great Parnelli Jones, and in the process telling off Colin Chapman-all superior upper-class teabagger manners and treachery
1999, Joe Scalzo, Indianapolis Roadsters, page 41 - slangvulgarA person who practices teabagging, i.e., the sexual act of inserting the scrotum into someone's mouth.
Synonyms & antonyms
nounAn affiliate of the Tea Party movement, or a supporter of its protests and/or ideology.
Origin
From tea + bagger or teabag + -er.
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