A word teenage girls use to tell each other gossip. It can be anything from a guy to talking bad about someone to even what they did yesterday. Also confuses parents
Abigail: Did you see what Connor did yesterday
Hailey: omg no spill the tea Abigail: he was talking about you
Hailey:omg Connor is so hot 🤤
The origins of this term does not come in the 1990’s. It’s from the time of Slavery in the south. The plantation owners would gather together and bring their slave mistresses. While the plantation owners would talk shop the “mistresses” would have tea and gossip.
Example: See ‘12 Years A Slave’/ Mistresses Shaw
Sally looked forward to the afternoons TomJefferson took her to spill the tea with other slave women.