A grass roots American political movement (not a political party) advocating adherence to the Constitution as well as reining in alleged excessive taxing and spending by the government. Term derived by advocates sending tea bags (symbolising the Boston Tea Party) to congresspersons who had a reputation for supporting large spending bills.

1772, from tea + party (n.). Political references to tea party all trace to the Boston tea party of 1773 (the name seems to date from 1824), in which radicals in Massachusetts colony boarded British s [..]

When a group of players hang around their own spawn point for a prolonged period of time.

An extremist American political movement that is, at one and the same time, a much bigger threat to the American Way of Life than Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Vladimir Putin and Hugo Chávez put together, and [..]

Any of various independent, fiscally conservative political groups in the twenty-first-century United States.