tea

Meaning

1. Gossip or juicy personal information.
2. The full, often dramatic story behind a situation.

“Sit down, I have the tea on what happened at the wedding.”

Where it came from

The gossip sense traces to Black and drag ballroom culture, sometimes linked to the older phrase spilling the T for truth. Black Twitter carried it into wide internet use through the 2010s, and it is now standard slang across platforms.