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語源

From tea +‎ bagger or teabag +‎ -er.

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名詞

teabagger (複数形 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