A semi-formal afternoon social gathering at which tea, sandwiches and cakes are served.

Any of various independent, fiscally conservative political groups in the twenty-first-century United States.

Various independent, fiscally conservative political groups in the twenty-first-century United States, taken as a whole.

plural of tea party

plural of Tea Party

(historical) A political protest that took place in Boston Harbour in 1773, in which demonstrators, in defiance of the Tea Act, destroyed an entire shipment of tea sent by the East India Company