tea bag

1. 1.

   a measured amount of tea in a bag for an individual serving of tea

   Broadertea
2. 2.

   small paper bag holding a measure of tea

   Broaderbag

Questions about tea bag

What does tea bag mean?

tea bag means "a measured amount of tea in a bag for an individual serving of tea". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

Is tea bag a common word?

tea bag is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.