Texas tea

Noun

Texas tea (countable and uncountable, plural Texas teas)

1. (slang) Crude oil.
   • Marshall didn't stumble on his fortune, but sure enough, his well was filled by the same Texas tea.2011, Russell J. Fishkind, Probate Wars of the Rich and Famous, →ISBN
   • 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.2015, Jimmy R. Watson, Big Jesus: A Pastor's Struggle with Christology, page 27
2. (slang) Motor oil.
   • 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.
   • My hat itches and I have lost nine dollars at Texas Tea.2016, Caroline Kepnes, Hidden Bodies, →ISBN
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.
   • 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...2009, Judy Allen, Event Planning, →ISBN
   • My poison was Long Island Iced Tea, or Texas Tea.2011, J. Scott Henderson, White Man, Black Man, Chinese Man: A Synoptic Tale of a True Friendship, →ISBN
5. (Texas) Iced tea.
   • 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.”2005, JoAnna Carl, The Chocolate Mouse Trap: A Chocoholic Mystery, →ISBN
   • Kirby paused for a sip of Texas tea, then went on.2015, Sarah Ockler, The Summer of Chasing Mermaids, →ISBN, page 166
6. Strong coffee.
   • 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, Dallas1991 May, “Texas Tea Time”, in The Alcalde, volume 79, number 5
   • 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 stout2012, S. Louis King, Gnome Home Papers, →ISBN, page 318
7. (slang) Marijuana.
   • 'Are you smoking ghanja?' 'What?' 'Texas tea, grass, greefo, hay, Mary Jane, pot?' 'Texas tea?' 'Have you been getting blasted?'2009, Karen Foxlee, The Anatomy of Wings, →ISBN
   • 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...2010, Rupert Till, Pop Cult: Religion and Popular Music, →ISBN, page 39

   Synonyms:

   bhang, benj, boo, broccoli, bud, buddha, cannabis, cheeba, choof, daccha

8. (slang) Purple drank.
   • 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.2011, Ryan Winfield, South of Bixby Bridge, →ISBN, page 140
   • "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.2012, Rachel Hooper, Andy Coolquitt, page 41

   Synonyms:

   lean, purple drank, sizzurp

9. Diluted fertilizer filtered through manure.
   • 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.1999, Jerry W. Rockett, Troubles on the Horizon: Surviving Y2K, →ISBN, page 44
   • 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.2004, Dave Stevens, My Western Roots, →ISBN, page 1
10. (US, slang) A mixture of drugs (pancuronium bromide, potassium chloride, and sodium thiopental) used to execute a person by lethal injection.
    • 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...2007 July 23, Tad Friend, “Dean of Death Row”, in The New Yorker
    • “[…] 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...2013, Elizabeth Strout, The Burgess Boys, New York, NY: Random House, published 2014, →ISBN, page 60