Tina

American  

[tee-nuh] / ˈti nə /

noun

1. a female given name.

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tina British  

/ ˈtiːnə /

noun

1. a slang word for crystal meth

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Etymology

Origin of tina

C21: so called because it is commonly bought in ( six ) teen ( ths ) of an ounce

Example Sentences

Also, Beyoncé’s mother, Tina Knowles, posted about the event on Instagram, saying that Jay Z sent her a recap video.

From Los Angeles Times

In 1978, the British director Tina Packer gathered up 25 actors and theater artists and moved them into the squalid, boarded-up bones of Edith Wharton’s former mansion, known as the Mount, in Lenox, Mass. Living and working together, with little financing and subsisting largely on macaroni and cheese, they formed a kind of ragtag, theatrical laboratory called Shakespeare & Company to explore Packer’s boundary-pushing approach to the Bard.

From The Wall Street Journal

Goodland explained that directors generally start with a holistic vision for a given production and assimilate the actors’ performances to serve it: “But from the very beginning, Tina puts the actors’ energy at the center.”

From The Wall Street Journal

After being instrumental in an architectural restoration of the Mount, Packer moved her company in 2001 to another historic property on 30 acres in Lennox and renovated it to include a 400-seat theater now known as the Tina Packer Playhouse.

From The Wall Street Journal

Two years ago, Tina Fey appeared on “Las Culturistas,” one of my favorite podcasts, and delivered a line that immediately ricocheted across the internet and stuck with me personally: “Authenticity is dangerous and expensive.”

From Salon