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tea pad noun an apartment, house or room where marijuana is smoked US, 1938- Usually, each tea pad has comfortable furniture, a radio, victrola or, as in most instances, a rented nickelodeon. The light is more or less uniformly dim, with blue predominating. An incense burner is considered part of the furnishings. — La Guardia Report, pp. 9–10, 1944
- There are about 500 apartments in Harlem, known as “tea pads,” set up exclusively for marijuana addicts. — Jack Lait and Lee Mortimer, New York Confidential, p. 103, 1948
- He drove out north to a tea pad where everybody was already hopped up. — Willard Motley, Let No Man Write My Epitaph, p. 109, 1958
- Meanwhile Bozo and Andre split up and Bob and I took over Bozo’s apartment and turned it into a tea pad and thieves’ den. — Herbert Huncke, The Evening Sun Turned Crimson, p. 54, 1980
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