tea bag
- noun
- B2
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A small paper bag with tea leaves inside that you drop into hot water to make one cup of tea.
Leave the tea bag in for three minutes, then take it out.
He squeezed the tea bag against his spoon before throwing it away.
Somebody left a used tea bag on the kitchen counter again.
This box holds forty tea bags, each in its own wrapper.
Common collocations: put a tea bag in · take the tea bag out · a used tea bag · a box of tea bags · dunk a tea bag · squeeze the tea bag
Part of: Drinks, Cooking, Kitchen utensils
Forms
- plural
- tea bags