tearoom n.
(US gay) a public lavatory popular for casual sex and assignations; also attrib.
![[US]](/static/img/flags/us.png "United States") | Manual of Psychiatry in Katz Gay/Lesbian Almanac (1983) 440: Tea house, a public lavatory frequented by homosexuals. | |
| Scarlet Pansy 191: Fay and Bobby on their way home dropped into the tearoom which the Butsches patronized at the time and where some of their number could be found every afternoon. | |
 | Lust 101: Say, I always know when I’m hungry, and I get somthin’ to eat pretty quick. There’s always at least one muzzler in de Tea House, an’ I know how to make their tongues hang out. | |
| et al. Gay Girl’s Guide 16: tearoom (t-room): Men’s Room, Toilet. | |
| Gaedicker’s Sodom-on-the-Hudson 16: T-ROOMS. It would be difficult to fix any complete list for head-queens. | |
| City of Night 183: A queen, camping by the head, calls out, ‘Hi, babe — welcome to Jenny’s tearoom.’. | |
| Queens’ Vernacular 194: teahouse [of the August moon] public toilet. | |
| Faggots 105: Today he’d tried two new things. A golden shower and a tea-room. | |
| Quiet Fire 147: I had very little tearoom sex except maybe for a quick blow job — being blown. | |
| Queer Sl. in the Gay 90s 🌐 Tearoom – A public lavatory that is often cruised by gay men. | |
| Johnsbooks.com 🌐 I walk back to the other tearoom with action in progress with a new cast of characters. A bunch of black homies are standing looking serious, guarding something in the back shitter. |
In compounds
(US gay) a homosexual who hangs around public lavatories for sex.
| Lavender Lex. n.p.: t room queen:– A homosexual who enjoys or engages in cruising in public toilets. Among the gay it is a term of scorn. | |
| 5000 Adult Sex Words and Phrases. | |
| ‘Homosexual Sl.’ in AS XLV:1/2 53: The most popular compound formation involves some nouns plus queen [...] size queen, rim queen, tearoom queen. | |
| Faggots 108: I get sick of loitering at the loos. [...] I am not a tea-room queen. | |
| Maledicta VI:1+2 (Summer/Winter) 139: [A] gay prostitute (young volunteer, call-boy, cottage or tea-room cruiser or troller, club and pub pro). | |
| Gay (S)language. |
1. (also T-room trade) the world of sexual assignations, pick-ups and consummation practised in public lavatories.
| in Tearoom Trade 97: [title] I stopped to cruise that tearoom on the north side of the park. | |
| Maledicta IV:2 (Winter) 233: One was described as ‘a marvel of dexterity at the cottage upright,’ suggesting not piano-playing but the tea-room trade [...] at urinals in cottages = public lavatories. | |
![[NZ]](/static/img/flags/nz.png "New Zealand") | ‘Trolling the Beat to Working the Soob’ in Int’l Jrnl Lexicog. 23:1 61: The bog trade refers to soliciting for sex in public toilets. It can be compared to Australia’s cruising the beats, the U.S. T-room trade and the English verb cottaging. |
2. men who enjoy being fellated in public lavatories.
| Queens’ Vernacular 195: tearoom trade men who dig getting blown in public lavatories. | |
| Gay (S)language 42: Tearoom trade — non-gay male who frequents men’s rooms to be fellated. |