Tex.

abbreviation for

1. Texan.
2. Texas.

tex

¹

noun

1. a unit of weight used to measure the density of yarns. It is equal to 1 gram per 1000 metres

Tex.

²

abbreviation for

1. Texan
2. Texas

Word History and Origins

Origin of Tex.¹

C20: from French, from textile textile

Example Sentences

Those are fighting words in a nearly half-Latino city where Tex-Mex restaurants outnumber all others.

From The Daily Beast

He sent Warner Bros., a rough draft of a screenplay called Tex-X.

From The Daily Beast

In fact, quite the opposite—I suspect that my own experience epitomizes, in miniature, the Tex-Mex revival as a whole.

From The Daily Beast

The former accused him of cooking inauthentic Mexican food; the latter accused him of cooking inauthentic Tex-Mex.

From The Daily Beast

Texas expats wax rhapsodic about the Tex-Mex food of their youth.

From The Daily Beast

I meant to locate it in Irving, Tex., rather than Texas generally.

From Project Gutenberg

This excludes the box number and the wording "Dallas, Tex.," in the lower right portion.

From Project Gutenberg

But the words of our tex has a difrunt and more pertikelur meenin than this.

From Project Gutenberg

Donovan has always been picking on Tex, and when he gets drunk he is worse than ever.

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That little fellow was Wild Tex, and the big fellow was Donovan.

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