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Texas chilis

Texas chilis is the plural of Texas chili.

Meaning of Texas chili

Noun

Texas chili (usually uncountable, plural Texas chilis)

  1. (usually) Chili con carne made without beans.
    • “I think there is probably no consensus on one idea (of what defines chili), but the reason why we don’t allow beans in chili is number one: real Texas chili has always been known as meat and the sauce with peppers,” Hancock said. “Beans don’t come into play at the cook-off because if our judges...2024 January 10, Matilda Preisendorf, “Why Texas Chili Doesn’t Have Beans”, in Local Profile

Questions about Texas chilis

What is Texas chilis the plural of?
Texas chilis is the plural of Texas chili.

Words near Texas chilis in the dictionary

  1. Texas caviar
  2. Texas cedar elm
  3. Texas cedar elms
  4. Texas chicken
  5. Texas chili
  6. Texas chilis
  7. Texas cichlid
  8. Texas cichlids
  9. Texas City
  10. Texas County
  11. Texas crabapple

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Adapted from Wiktionary: Texas chilis (page history and authors); Texas chili (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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