One who attends or attended the University of Texas (t.u.) in Austin, Texas.
The term tea-sip (also spelled teasip, t-sip, or t sip) was started by students of Texas A&M University (aka. Aggies) in the early 1900's to belittle the well-to-do students of t.u.
The University of Texas was traditionally the "rich" school which pumped out doctors, lawyers and the like. A&M was the blue collar school which traditionally taught Agriculture and Mechanics (engineering).
The deacon got caught tea sipping the pastor. So Pastor responded with tea sipping during the sermon.
Drake be tea sipping in his songs.
By Ginger
Tea Sip
A student of texas university (t.u.) in Austin, TX. The nickname refers to the World War II era, when t.u. students were sitting around sipping tea while Aggies went to war. A variant of the term is t-shirt tea sip, identifying wannabe t.u. students at nearby schools such as Texas State and t.u.-San Antonio.
Look at those tea sips sitting around sipping tea and listening to Alex Jones on the radio, pretending to be intellectual.
Present participle of "to sip tea" usually a meme in social media or chat room context of quietly, discretely or otherwise shrewdly taking part in verbal disclosure of some valuable, interesting or otherwise useful information. Whether in context of gossip or rumors about a celebrity or an important event or other information of value to the listener. The listener quietly sips tea as they drink in the information also.
Meaning: As in sipping tea, when getting good gossip from a girlfriend over the kitchen table.
Usually used in social media (ie. tumblr) when posting gifs with comments about celebrity gossip. See Ristopher Tumblr about Chris Brown and Rihanna.
example:
Listens to gossip.
Responds: "Uh uhuhhhh."
Figuratively sips tea behind the computer screen with big eyes and a smirk.
By Joellyn
Sipping Tea
βSipping teaβ comes an image of the character Kermit the frogsipping tea. The phrase is used to say that something is not your business. It can also be used to reply to a complainer, to show that you donβt care.