tea

Adjective

1. Good-looking, sexy.

Noun Entry 2

1. The tea plant (Camellia sinensis); (countable) a variety of this plant.
   • Darjeeling tea is grown in India.
2. The dried leaves or buds of the tea plant; (countable) a variety of such leaves.
   • Go to the supermarket and buy some Darjeeling tea.
   • Not for all the tea in China.
3. The drink made by infusing these dried leaves or buds in hot water.
   • Would you like some tea?
   • She is drinking her tea right now.
   • Mother[…]considered that the exclusiveness of Peter's circle was due not to its distinction, but to the fact that it was an inner Babylon of prodigality and whoredom, from which every Kensingtonian held aloof, except on...
4. Specifically sweet tea, an iced tea supersaturated with sugar.
5. Any drink which is similar to Camellia sinensis tea in some way:
   • Mushroom Tea / 8 cups water / 1 cup dried reishi mushroom pieces [...] 1. Start by making Reishi Mushroom Tea: Bring water to a boil in a medium saucepan. 2. Add the reishi mushroom pieces[…] - 2019 February 12, Maryea...

   1. (uncountable) Any similar drink made by infusing parts of various other plants.

      • camomile tea; mint tea
      • Curcuma tea relieves colds[…] - 2017 January 3, Gilles Diederichs, My Anti-Stress Year: 52 Weeks of Soothing Activities and Wellness Advice, Simon and Schuster, →ISBN:

   2. (uncountable, in combination) Meat stock served as a hot drink.

      • beef tea
6. A cup of any of these drinks, often with milk, sugar, lemon, or tapioca pearls.
   • We'd like one tea and one coffee, please.
7. A glass of these drinks.
8. A light midafternoon meal, typically but not necessarily including tea.
   • I won't make it to the breakfast event, but I'll see you at the tea.
   • But the gorge of the Rush was not at all a nice place for travelling either. I mean, it was not a nice place for people in a hurry. For an afternoon's ramble ending in a picnic tea it would have been delightful. - 1951,...
   • Tea was a very special institution, revolving as it did around the ceremony and worship of Toast. In a place [public schools] where alcohol, tobacco and drugs were forbidden, it was essential that something should take...
9. Synonym of supper, the main evening meal, whether or not it includes tea.
   • The family were sitting round the table, eating their tea.
   • Jacki set about making the tea—bacon grills with chips and bread and butter. - 2018, Ray Wyre, Tim Tate, The Murder of Childhood, page 126:

   Synonyms: supper

10. The break in play between the second and third sessions.
    • Australia were 490 for 7 at tea on the second day.
    • As recently as the mid-80s the players would be given a bottle of beer at lunchtime at some county grounds, and "tea" still meant a cup of tea into the 90s. - 2009, “What do cricketers eat at tea? When is it safe to...
11. Synonym of marijuana.
    • So they were evidence. Evidence of what? That a man occasionally smoked a stick of tea, a man who looked as if any touch of the exotic would appeal to him. On the other hand lots of tough guys smoked marijuana […]. -...
    • Tea puts a musician in a real masterly sphere, and that's why so many jazzmen have used it. - 1946, Milton “Mezz” Mezzrow, Bernard Wolfe, “Them First Kicks are a Killer”, in Really the Blues, New York, N.Y.: Random...
    • Here in Texas possession of tea is a felony calling for 2 years. - 1947 March 11, William Burroughs, letter

    Synonyms: marijuana

12. Information, especially gossip.
    • Spill the tea on that drama, hon.
    • Now I've told you that I've taken LSD, and you think I'm gonna leap through a window or something like that. And you know why that is, that's because of Art Linkletter's daughter.... But let me give you the tea on her,...
    • "What's the tea on you and China? Where she at Alicia? You should know where ya baby at." - 2015, Sonya Shuman, Doors of the Church Are Open: Smoke & Mirrors by Sonya Shuman:

Noun Entry 3

1. A moment, a historical unit of time from China, about the amount of time needed to quickly drink a traditional cup of tea.

Verb

1. To drink tea.
   • We tea’d with May, and had to wait over an hour for a taxi! - 1916 March 28, Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother, “Elizabeth”, in William Shawcross, editor, Counting One’s Blessings: The Selected Letters of Queen Elizabeth...
   • I dined yesterday at | three on mutton chops and 1/2 pint of E[ast] I [ndian] sherry, and then tead and muffined' at 8. - 1837, Benjamin Disraeli, Benjamin Disraeli Letters: 1835-1837, Toronto; Buffalo; London:...
   • We coffeed and tead and smoked a trench torch with Grand Master Browning, and cranked our Cadillac for another station. - 1921, Desmos of Delta Sigma Delta, page 41:
2. To take afternoon tea (a light meal).
   • The wind was high and the hills ditto, and both being against us we were late in reaching Hitchin (30 from Cambridge), so giving up the idea of reaching Oxford we toiled on through Luton, on to Dunstable (47), where we...
3. To give tea to.
   • And they’ve got Professor Hummums with ’em, the great Everlasting Star of the Nineteenth Century, which he has breakfasted and dined and tea’d and supped here ever since yesterday. - 1858, Benedict Cruiser, “Of the...
   • In half an hour they had all been tea’d and coffeed and refreshed by the nurses, and shortly after were all undressed and put to bed clean and comfortable, and in a droll state of grateful wonder; - 1863, chapter I, in...
   • But one or two evil-disposed characters muttered they might be sure the lady had her own turn to serve, and they might be sure they wasn't "teaed and muffined and sandwiched for nothing!" - 1866, Emma Jane Worboise,...

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