Tea bag

Wiktionary: teabagging – Bedeutungserklärungen, Wortherkunft, Synonyme, Übersetzungen

Teabagging is a slang term for the act of a man placing his testicles, specifically the scrotum, in the mouth or face of another person, often in a repeated in-and-out motion. The practice vaguely resembles dipping a tea bag into a cup of tea.

The practice

An example of teabagging is shown in the movie Pecker by John Waters, which showed a male stripper repeatedly striking a man's forehead, and purportedly introduced the practice of teabagging to a wider audience.

It has also been reported as a practice in hazing among athletic teams. This is described in an article by Robert DeKoven from Gay and Lesbian Times.

In the media

In video games

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Halo 3 player simulates teabagging a dead opponent.

Simulations of teabagging are often used in video games, specifically first person shooters such as Counter-Strike, Resistance: Fall of Man and Halo, the last of these in which it is sometimes referred to as the "Halo Hump" or simply "corpse-humping". "Teabagging" is performed by repeatly crouching down - a common movement in FPSs - while on top of an enemy corpse. The act is a form of victory dance to show ownership and to humiliate an enemy player.

Miscellaneous

• One track on rapper Ludacris' 2004 album Chicken & Beer is a skit labeled "T Baggin'". It is a parody of phone messages that require the dialer to press a number for a service. It says, "If you woke up with a hangover and a pair of hairy balls on your forehead, press "7". You pressed "7". You've just been victimized and introduced to a moral crime known as "teabaggin'". We suggest you promptly hang up the phone, beat the ass of any white guys you hung out with last night, and find and destroy all photos before they appear on the Internet. Thank you for calling. Good luck. Goodbye."
• On the television series Sex and the City, Samantha Jones, played by Kim Cattrall, explained the practice of teabagging to her friends quite blatantly and loudly in a crowded restaurant in the episode "A Woman's Right to Shoes".
• When Robert Knepper, whose character on Prison Break is nicknamed T-Bag, appeared on Live with Regis and Kelly on 30 January 2007 he began to recount how he learned what the name meant, but was cut off by host Kelly Ripa, who quickly cut to a commercial break.
• We Are Klang's song First Kiss contains the line "... and a lollipop man started teabagging me" followed by a mimed description.
• In the Comedy film Soul Plane Tom Arnold wants to know what Teabagging is after his daughter mentions it to him.

Other uses

• In windsurfing and other watersports, an individual is "teabagged" when they fall beneath the water of a choppy wave.