Texasn.

1942 L. V. Berrey & M. Van den Bark Amer. Thes. Slang §926/1 Texas butter, a gravy made with flour and water in meat grease.

1944 R. F. Adams Western Words 164/2 Texas cakewalk, a hanging.

1944 R. F. Adams Western Words 164/2 Texas gate, a makeshift gate made of barbed wire fastened to a pole.

1962 Amer. Speech 37 266 Arizona stop; Texas stop, n. Slowing down, but not making a full stop at a stop sign.

1969 Britannica Bk. of Year (U.S.) 801/1 Texas toast, a thick slice of bread warmed and covered with butter.

1970 Current Slang (Univ. S. Dakota) 4 iii–iv. 25 Texas strawberries, red beans.

1975 D. Bagley Snow Tiger xi. 97 A Texas nightingale isn't a bird... It's a donkey. This is a similar New Zealand joke.

1976 A. Boot & M. Thomas Jamaica 76/2 It certainly had more flair than old LBJ taking a table of journalists and staffers into the men's room, there to reduce them to awe and wonderment at the size of his whopping great Texas trouser snake.

1979 G. Swarthout Skeletons 172 They call it a ‘Texas horserace’. Blaise and his deputies sneaked the Mexicans..to the edge of town and told them to hot-foot it for the line. They'd give them an hour's head start. Then they'd come after them, mounted... If Blaise and his boys caught up with them on this side, it was their bad luck... The Mexs didn't make it.

1867 Ann. Rep. Missouri State Board Agric. 1866 16 Another pest..is the ‘Texas fever’,..or ‘Texas murrain’, as it is variously known.

1902 Westm. Gaz. 2 June 10/2 It is officially announced that the cattle disease prevailing in Rhodesia is Texas fever which is spread by ticks.

1905 Sporting Life (Philadelphia) 7 Oct. 9/4 A bit of bad coaching euchered him out of one bingle the other afternoon, when a Texas Leaguer from his bat had to be chalked down a force out instead of a hit.

1935 J. T. Farrell Judgment Day viii. 185 A dumpy texas-leaguer over third base placed runners on first and second.

1977 Verbatim May 5/2 We are no longer besieged with such terms as ‘hot corner’, ‘keystone’, ‘Texas Leaguer’, ‘flyhawk’, ‘maskman’, and ‘grasscutter’.

1908 Pacific Monthly July 19/1 Pink got here about the same time but he come of old Texas-longhorn stock.

a1918 G. Stuart 40 Years on Frontier (1925) II. 178 None of our cattle were Texas longhorns.

1946 National Geographic Mag. Jan. 17/1 Cattle then were the rangy Texas longhorns—more head, horns, and tail than thick, juicy steaks.

1972 K. Bonfiglioli Don't point that Thing at Me xiii. 101 The bleached skeleton of a Texas Longhorn..beside a faint track.

1858 P. L. Simmonds Dict. Trade Products Texas Millet, the Sorghum cernuum, a prolific bread-corn cultivated in the tropics.

1846 Whig Almanac 1847 19/1 Capt. Samuel Walker, at the head of a small company of Texas Rangers, left Point Isabel.

1911 Everybody's Mag. Sept. 354/1 Two Texas rangers faced Antonio Carrasco and his seventeen thieves sometime in December of 1910.

1943 B. House I give you Texas 31 A city was threatened by mob violence, so a telegram was sent to the governor to rush a force of Texas Rangers to the scene.

1980 E. Behr Getting Even x. 114 The Chairman was wearing a Texas Ranger hat the American President had given him.

1954 Tuscaloosa (Alabama) News 13 Aug. 3 (caption) Here is a closeup of a section of one of the ‘Texas Towers’..being built offshore along the Atlantic coast. Towers, named for oil rigs in the Gulf of Mexico, will be built along the continental shelf.

1971 S. E. Morison European Discov. Amer.: Northern Voy. xix. 653 The Gulf Stream flows within twelve miles of Cape Hatteras, and the counter-currents, strong winds, and shifting sands are a menace to navigation even today. A Texas Tower was established off Diamond Shoals, the most dangerous, in 1966.