What does “spill the tea” mean?
To spill the tea is to share gossip; the tea is the gossip.
Where it comes from
From Black drag and gay culture in the US, where T stood for truth.
Spill The Tea in a sentence
- Okay, spill the tea: what happened at the wedding?
- She spilled all the tea about the merger.
Can you say it at work?
It’s about gossip, which most workplaces could use less of.
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Words: candor
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