TEXAS
ADJECTIVES
► TEX-MEX Texan-Mexican → 1949 Amer. sl.
NOUNS
► BANNER STATE Texas → 1942 Amer. sl. (Bk.)
► BEEF STATE Texas → 1942 Amer. sl. (Bk.)
► BEEFHEAD STATE Texas → 1942 Amer. sl. (Bk.)
► BIG D, THE Dallas, Texas → 1930 US sl.
► BIG TEX Texas → 1942 Amer. sl. (Bk.)
► BLIZZARD STATE Texas → 1942 Amer. sl. (Bk.)
► BLUE BONNET STATE Texas → 1942 Amer. sl. (Bk.)
► BOLL-WEEVIL STATE Texas → 1942 Amer. sl. (Bk.)
► CHUCO El Paso, Texas → 1998 US prison sl.
► EL SMOGGO El Paso, Texas → 1970 US sl. (Bk.)
► EL STINKO El Paso, Texas → 1970 US sl. (Bk.)
► H., THE Houston, Texas → 1998 US sl.
► HELL PASS HOLE El Paso, Texas → 1970 US sl. (Bk.)
► JUMBO ► JUMBO STATE Texas → 1942 Amer. sl. (Bk.)
► LONE STAR STATE Texas → 1942 Amer. sl. (Bk.)
► LONGHORN STATE Texas → 1942 Amer. sl. (Bk.)
► OLD COFFINHEAD a giant rattlesnake of Texas folklore, pictured as ‘eight feet long and so ole he done got whiskers’; used to frighten children with → 1940 Amer. dial.
► TEX Texas → 1942 Amer. sl. (Bk.)
NOUNS – PERSON
► BEEF-HEAD a Texan → 1866 Amer. dial.
► BOLL WEEVIL a Texan → 1932 Amer. dial.
► CHUB a Texan → 1869 US colloq.
► COTTON PICKER a Texan; a term of reproach → 1937 Amer. dial.
► LONGHORN a Texan or other Southwesterner, esp. a shrewd, knowing, tough old-timer → 1896 Amer. dial.
► SHORTHORN someone not from Texas or the Southwest; an outsider, a neophyte, a greenhorn → 1885 Amer. dial.
► TEJANO a Texan of Mexican origin or descent → 1990 US sl.
► TEXICAN a Texan of Mexican or mixed ancestry; hence used, often derogatorily, for a migrant worker from Texas or elsewhere in the Southwest → 1916 Amer. dial.
► TEX-MEX a native of the Texas-Mexico border region → 1949 Amer. sl.
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