noun
General Slang
the tea
· noun · drag
Gossip, or the truth — the 'T' originally stood for truth.
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The tea is the goss, the inside story, the real situation. It started as 'T' for truth in early-90s Black drag culture — 'my T' meant my truth, my business, what's really going on in my life. In print by 1991. Over time T became tea, gossip and truth blurred together, and Drag Race plus social media made it everyone's word. Now 'what's the tea?' just means 'tell me everything.'
“Sit down, because the tea on those two is unbelievable.”
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the tea In A Sentence
Sit down, because the tea on those two is unbelievable.
Origin & Usage
Early-1990s Black drag culture; 'T' stood for 'truth' (as in 'my T'). Documented in print by 1991 and in Lady Chablis's usage in Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil (1994).
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