tea spilling
Revealing juicy information
Tea spilling is slang for sharing gossip or revealing secrets, especially juicy or scandalous information.
The phrase comes from "spill the tea," meaning to divulge what you know: She was spilling tea about the breakup all night.
Common in LGBTQ+ communities and internet culture, it treats gossip as something delicious to pour out and consume.
- gossipInformal talk spreading rumors
- dramaTheatrical art or turmoil
- secretsConcealed information
- behind closed doorsIn private, unobserved
- hotHaving much warmth
steaming · hot take · pouring · scalding · rumor · word on the street · shade · exposé · tell all · truth · revealing · juicy · piping · brewing · tea party · loose lips · no filter · whisper
- gossiprumor, rumors, gossip, hearsay, whisper
- slangslang, jargon, lingo, argot, cant
- viral cultureviral videos, going viral, viral challenge, memes, meme
- clickbaitclickbait, curiosity gap, listicle, listicles, sensationalism
- defamationslander, libel, defamation, defamatory statement, defaming
tea spillingkeeping secrets
keeping mum · discretion · confidentiality · buttoning up · tight-lipped
tea spillingdiscretion
Careful judgment in speech
privacy · tactfulness · professionalism · decorum · propriety
tea spillingkeeping the peace
Maintaining order and calm
letting sleeping dogs lie · burying the hatchet · de-escalation · conflict avoidance · looking the other way
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