Word: Texas tea Part of Speech: noun 1. Crude oil. Labels: countable, slang, uncountable Example: Marshall didn't stumble on his fortune, but sure enough, his well was filled by the same Texas tea. Example: A few months later, much like the Beverly Hillbillies without the Texas Tea, I loaded up my family and traveled off to the big Baptist university a hundred miles away. 2. Motor oil. Labels: countable, slang, uncountable Example: My car just hit 3,000 so it needs some new Texas tea. 3. A video slot machine that has a Texas oil industry theme. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: My hat itches and I have lost nine dollars at Texas Tea. 4. A variation of Long Island iced tea, a highly potent mixed drink made of a variety of alcoholic ingredients, without any actual iced tea. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: Cowboy Cocktails, such as Jack and Seven, also known as Seven and Seven in the South (Jack Daniel's Old No. 7 and 7UP), Texas Comfort (Southern Comfort and Ginger Ale), Texas Tea (Jack Daniel's and Pepsi, among other ingredients), whiskey/bourbon on the rocks or straight up, and whiskey sours may find their way on to your beverage menu. Example: My poison was Long Island Iced Tea, or Texas Tea. 5. Iced tea. Labels: Texas, countable, uncountable Example: It gave Mike time to make me some Texas tea.” Martin looked puzzled. “I thought Texas tea was slang for oil.” “It may be. But to Texans like Mike and me, it merely means well-brewed, properly iced tea.” Example: Kirby paused for a sip of Texas tea, then went on. 6. Strong coffee. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: The event, sponsored by the ESA Student Involvement Committee, featured a Texas-sized cake from Mrs. Johnson's Bakery and gallons of Texas Tea, donated by Enterprise Coffee Beans, Dallas Example: Hot, steaming coffee. I finished dressing—shorts, cutoff t-shirt and flip flops. It's standard dress for summer in Texas. The coffee is already made—last night. Machine grade oil, Texas tea. Very stout 7. Marijuana. Labels: countable, slang, uncountable Example: 'Are you smoking ghanja?' 'What?' 'Texas tea, grass, greefo, hay, Mary Jane, pot?' 'Texas tea?' 'Have you been getting blasted?' Example: Examples of songs about cannabis include "Muggles" by Louis Armstrong, "Reefer Man" by Cab Calloway, "A Viper's Drag" by Fats Waller, 'Viper Mad' by Sidney Bechet, 'Gimme a Reefer' by Bessie Smith, 'When I Get LowI Get High' by Ella Fitzgerald, 'Ol' Man River (Smoke a Little Tea)' by Duke Ellington, 'Texas Tea Party' by Benny Goodman, 'Smoking Reefers' by Larry Adler and 'I'm Felling High and Happy' by Gene Krupa. 8. Purple drank. Labels: countable, slang, uncountable Example: But she went to her car and came back with a purple pharmacist's refill bottle of promethazine-codeine cough syrup. She called it Texas tea. Example: "Lean" is also a term in Texas hip-hop slang, referring to a mixture of cough syrup and soda popularized in the mid-1990s and also known as purple drank or Texas tea. 9. Diluted fertilizer filtered through manure. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: I had put a drain at the bottom of the barrel so I could direct the flow of water where I desired. Some people have referred to this liquid as “Texas Tea”, no offense, so I will refer to it as tea. Example: Pa had a knack for growing and he spent many hours pampering his crops. He had developed a fertilizer; he called Texas Tea that involved fermenting dried cow and or buffalo manure in water barrels and pouring the liquid over the freshly planted crops. 10. A mixture of drugs (pancuronium bromide, potassium chloride, and sodium thiopental) used to execute a person by lethal injection. Labels: US, countable, slang, uncountable Example: San Quentin’s execution logs indicate that, during six of the prison’s eleven lethal injections, the condemned may have been partly conscious; similar findings have led eight states to suspend use of the chemical mixture—sometimes called Texas Tea—employed in most of the death-penalty states, including California. Example: “[…] He was from Texas. Short disgusting little prick. Didn't even know what Texas Tea was. So I told him.” Jim pointed his finger toward Helen. “I said it's what you guys use to kill people now that you've stopped frying them faster than potato chips. Sodium thiopental, pancuronium bromide, potassium chloride. He didn't say a thing. Dickwad. Just got a little smile on his face.”