Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A nipple of the mammary gland; a mamilla.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The mammary nipple; the tip of the mammary gland, through which milk passes out, or is drawn out by sucking or squeezing; the pap of a woman or the dug of a beast.
- noun Hence, the mammary gland; the breast; the udder.
- noun Something resembling a teat, as a nozle.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The protuberance through which milk is drawn from the udder or breast of a mammal; a nipple; a pap; a mammilla; a dug; a tit.
- noun (Mach.) A small protuberance or nozzle resembling the teat of an animal.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun The
projection of amammary gland from which, onfemale mammals ,milk issecreted . - noun An
artificial nipple used forbottle-feeding infants .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun the small projection of a mammary gland
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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Biden saying what he did and the media latching onto it like a pup starving for a teat is what allowed Obama to make the veiled proimse to leave Israel in the lurch if it acts imprudently.
Obama: U.S. not giving Israel green light to attack Iran 2009
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Meanwhile this teat is being used to keep contractor teams fed while waiting for the Next Great Thing.
Explaining NASA Cost Overruns and Delays to Congress - NASA Watch 2009
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As long as the government teat is so engorged, the suckers will have at it – and us.
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Although the public discussion revolved around Simpson's use of one of the seven dirty words you can't say on TV -- an odd word choice for a guy from a farm state, who should be naturally inclined to use the word "teat" -- the real story is in Simpson's seething scorn for the entire idea of the Social Security system.
Dorf on Law 2010
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May 2008 (CDT) hey hay, happy holiday, cheers to you, bom apetite - which rhymes with 'teat' -
Citizendium, the Citizens' Compendium - Recent changes [en] 2009
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May 2008 (CDT) hey hay, happy holiday, cheers to you, bom apetite - which rhymes with 'teat' -
Citizendium, the Citizens' Compendium - Recent changes [en] 2009
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May 2008 (CDT) hey hay, happy holiday, cheers to you, bom apetite - which rhymes with 'teat' -
Citizendium, the Citizens' Compendium - Recent changes [en] 2008
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May 2008 (CDT) hey hay, happy holiday, cheers to you, bom apetite - which rhymes with 'teat' -
Citizendium, the Citizens' Compendium - Recent changes [en] 2008
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May 2008 (CDT) hey hay, happy holiday, cheers to you, bom apetite - which rhymes with 'teat' -
Citizendium, the Citizens' Compendium - Recent changes [en] 2008
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May 2008 (CDT) hey hay, happy holiday, cheers to you, bom apetite - which rhymes with 'teat' -
Citizendium, the Citizens' Compendium - Recent changes [en] 2008
mad4books commented on the word teat
without thinking of the movie _Meet the Parents_.
December 9, 2006