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From: tejek	8/14/2014 2:45:53 PM
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"Teabagger" The term teabagger was initially[ when?] used[ by whom?] to refer to Tea Partiers *after conservatives[ who?] used tea bag* as a verb on protest signs and websites*.[ citation needed] Some members of the movement adopted the term as a verb, and a few others referred to themselves as "teabaggers." [235] [236] [237] News media and progressive commentators outside the movement began to use the term mockingly and derisively, alluding to the sexual connotation of the term when referring to Tea Party protesters. The use of the double entendre evolved from Tea Party protest sites encouraging readers to "Tea bag the fools in DC" to the political left adopting the term for derogatory jokes. [237] [238] [239] It has been used by several media outlets to humorously refer to Tea Party-affiliated protestors. [240] Some conservatives have advocated that the non-vulgar meaning of the word be reclaimed. [237] Grant Barrett, co-host of the A Way with Words* radio program, has listed teabagger as a 2009 buzzword meaning, "a derogatory name for attendees of Tea Parties, probably coined in allusion to a sexual practice". [241] en.wikipedia.org

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