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tea party
noun
- a social gathering, usually in the afternoon, at which tea and light refreshments are served.
- (initial capital letters) a conservative political movement in the U.S. that opposes taxes and government spending: named in reference to the Boston Tea Party of 1773.
Tea Party
1noun
- (in the US) a political movement, associated with the right wing of the Republican Party, favouring reduction in taxation and government spending
tea party
2noun
- a social gathering in the afternoon at which tea is served
Word History and Origins
Origin of tea party1
Word History and Origins
Origin of tea party1
Example Sentences
A year before he had similarly arrived with news of the Boston Tea Party.
Senseless bureaucracy is part of what spawned the Tea Party.
Some imagine Senator Elizabeth Warren as the charismatic leader of a progressive version of the “tea party.”
Your move, supposedly not Tea-Party-fevered Governor John Kasich.
A year before Government Bullies, he published The Tea Party Goes to Washington.
You think that if a man's charming, that's the end of him, and that all he's good for is to amuse a few old ladies at a tea party.
The parlour, having once been a ware-room, was unusually large and well adapted for a tea-party.
It is not over the virtues of a curate-and-tea-party novel that people are abashed into high resolutions.
Worby remembered hearing the old lady tell this dream at a tea-party in the house of the chapter clerk.
You cite the case of some who are admirable tea-party oracles, but who cannot utter half a dozen sentences in the tribune.
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