0 an occasion when people meet in the afternoon to drink tea and eat a small amount of food
1 a right-wing political movement in the US that wants to greatly reduce government spending and cut taxes
Baptists ironically observed that the fee imposed on them was the same as the tax on tea that had precipitated the famous tea party!
It's a tea party for drum machines.
If we have a tea party costing about two bob a head, that is extravagance at the expense of the ratepayers.
Coming in as an outside advocate, one feels that one is almost interfering in a private tea party.
If we accepted that proposal, the present dispute would look like a vicarage tea party.
I dislike, for example, the "chimps' tea party" aspect of the zoological garden.
Nevertheless, we should not expect to impose upon football a vicar's tea party.
There was nothing but what are called "tea party" meetings.
