Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun boston_tea_party

1 sense of boston tea party

Sense 1
Boston Tea Party -- (demonstration (1773) by citizens of Boston who (disguised as Indians) raided three British ships in Boston harbor and dumped hundreds of chests of tea into the harbor; organized as a protest against taxes on tea)
       INSTANCE OF=> demonstration, manifestation -- (a public display of group feelings (usually of a political nature); "there were violent demonstrations against the war")