texas tea
Word Rarity
Uncommon
Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.50 in modern English
15
Scrabble Score
8
Letters
3
Syllables
5
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
A variation of Long Island iced tea, a highly potent mixed drink made of a variety of alcoholic ingredients, without any actual iced tea.
Countable; Uncountable
Example Sentences
- "Marshall didn't stumble on his fortune, but sure enough, his well was filled by the same Texas tea."
- "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."
- "A contaminant came up with the brine . . . rock oil . . . petroleum . . . Texas tea."
- "Oilmen had spent weeks drilling to a depth more than 1,000 feet into Sour Springs Mound, a salt dome a few miles south of Beaumont, hoping to come into some “Texas Tea.” And at about 10:30 in the morning on January 10, 1901, the teacup runneth over."
- "My car just hit 3,000 so it needs some new Texas tea."
- "My hat itches and I have lost nine dollars at Texas Tea."
Usage
- Countable
- Slang
- Uncountable
- American usage