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abbreviation

Mexican.

Mexico.

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Words nearby Mex.

mevrou, mew, Mewar, mewl, mews, Mex., Mexicali, Mexican, Mexican American, Mexican bamboo, Mexican bean beetle

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How to use Mex. in a sentence

Those are fighting words in a nearly half-Latino city where Tex-Mex restaurants outnumber all others.
Foodie Heaven in Houston|Michele Meyer|July 10, 2014|DAILY BEAST
In fact, quite the opposite—I suspect that my own experience epitomizes, in miniature, the Tex-Mex revival as a whole.
The Next Big Cuisine of 2014 Is ... Tex-Mex?|Andrew Romano|January 25, 2014|DAILY BEAST
The former accused him of cooking inauthentic Mexican food; the latter accused him of cooking inauthentic Tex-Mex.
The Next Big Cuisine of 2014 Is ... Tex-Mex?|Andrew Romano|January 25, 2014|DAILY BEAST
Texas expats wax rhapsodic about the Tex-Mex food of their youth.
The Next Big Cuisine of 2014 Is ... Tex-Mex?|Andrew Romano|January 25, 2014|DAILY BEAST

“With Bar Ama, what I wanted to do, conceptually, was to take the ideas around Tex-Mex and make them my own,” he said.
The Next Big Cuisine of 2014 Is ... Tex-Mex?|Andrew Romano|January 25, 2014|DAILY BEAST
The old days of comfortable hackney-carriages in hundreds about the Manila streets, at 50 cents Mex.
The Philippine Islands|John Foreman
"Somebody's got to keep the camera for us, Mex," Frank Nelsen said presently.
The Planet Strappers|Raymond Zinke Gallun
The slatternly servant, who could speak only "Mex," had got no supper ready.
The Second Latchkey|Charles Norris Williamson and Alice Muriel Williamson
If a man's voice—the voice of a stranger—should reply in "Mex," or with a foreign accent, the girl did not intend to let him in.
The Second Latchkey|Charles Norris Williamson and Alice Muriel Williamson
Well, you said that there might be trouble from his people, that his father was a big Mex politician.
Hookers|Richard F. Mann

British Dictionary definitions for Mex. (1 of 2)

MEX

abbreviation for

Mexico (international car registration)

British Dictionary definitions for Mex. (2 of 2)

Mex.

abbreviation for

Mexican

Mexico

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