teabagger

English

Alternative forms

• tea-bagger

Etymology

From tea +‎ bagger or teabag +‎ -er.

Pronunciation

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Noun

teabagger (plural teabaggers)

1. A machine that packages tea into teabags.
   • 1977, Food Science and Technology Abstracts, volume 9, page 33:

     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.

2. (dated, derogatory) An upper-class participant in motor racing.
   • 1999, Joe Scalzo, Indianapolis Roadsters, page 41:

     […] and for the great Parnelli Jones, and in the process telling off Colin Chapman-all superior upper-class teabagger manners and treachery

3. (slang, vulgar) A person who practices teabagging, i.e., the sexual act of inserting the scrotum into someone's mouth.
4. (neologism, often derogatory) An affiliate of the Tea Party movement, or a supporter of its protests and/or ideology.

Synonyms

• (Tea Party movement member): teahadist (pejorative), teatard (pejorative)