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#texas

92 words tagged “texas”

Third Coast
proper noun

Texas/Gulf-Coast rap as the third hip-hop region, after East and West.

#houston#texas#hip-hop#scene
some plex
noun phrase

A tense situation — beef, drama, or trouble brewing.

#texas#houston#hip-hop#beef
30k millionaire
noun

Dallas archetype: average earner flexing luxury they can't actually afford.

#dallas#texas#money#insult
trill
adjective

True + real, fused. The realest stamp of approval in Southern rap.

#texas#hip-hop#southern#ugk
finna come through
phrase

About to swing by — Houston cruising vocabulary.

#houston#texas#aave#slab-culture
El Valluco
proper noun

The Rio Grande Valley — deep South Texas along the Mexico border.

#texas#rio-grande-valley#south-texas#chicano
Metroplex
proper noun

Marketing-coined label for the Dallas–Fort Worth metro region.

#dallas#fort-worth#texas#region
sittin' sideways
phrase

Swerving a slab side-to-side down the street on purpose.

#texas#houston#slab#cars
fifth wheel
noun

The spare tire mounted vertical on the trunk of a Houston slab — chrome, swangin', mandatory.

#texas#houston#hip-hop#car-culture
no hay pedo
phrase

Caló for 'no problem / no sweat' — literally 'no fart.'

#texas#calo#chicano#mexican-slang
The Clarke
proper noun

Hiram Clarke — south-west Houston neighbourhood.

#texas#houston#neighbourhood#hip-hop
San Anto
proper noun

Chicano Caló shortening of San Antonio.

#san-antonio#texas#chicano#calo
ghetto grub
noun phrase

Cheap fast food from the hood — wing spots, taquerias, corner-store plates.

#texas#houston#food#slang
candy paint
phrase

Translucent wet-look paint job in Skittle-bright colors — the defining finish of a Houston slab.

#texas#hip-hop#houston#cars
swangas
noun

Protruding 30-spoke wire wheels fitted to Houston slabs — also called elbows.

#texas#hip-hop#houston#cars
dirty Sprite
phrase

Sprite cut with codeine cough syrup — another name for lean.

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country rap tunes
phrase

Pimp C's name for UGK's slow, gospel-soaked Texas sound.

#texas#hip-hop#ugk#southern
Dine-tine
noun

'Downtown' in Houston drawl.

#houston#texas#pronunciation#geography
overstood
verb

Past tense of 'overstand' — understood, agreed, and locked in.

#dallas#texas#aave#affirmation
mayne hol'up
phrase

Houston interjection — 'man, hold up'.

#houston#texas#interjection#aave
sippin' on some syrup
phrase

The 2000 Three 6 x UGK single that put purple drank on the national map.

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throwed
adjective

Wasted on lean — or, depending on tone, just incredibly cool.

#texas#houston#lean#hip-hop
watchale
interjection

Tex-Mex Spanglish for 'watch out' or 'check this out.'

#texas#spanglish#tex-mex#border
The Fo-fo
proper noun

Acres Homes — named after the #44 Metro bus that runs through it.

#texas#houston#neighbourhood#hip-hop
pop-trunk
noun

Remote-popping trunk rigged with neon, amps and speakers.

#texas#houston#slab#car-culture
cachibaches
noun

Junk, odds and ends, random clutter.

#texas#calo#chicano#mexican-slang
Mo City
proper noun

Missouri City — Houston's southwest suburb, half-jokingly 'Misery City.'

#texas#houston#neighbourhood#suburb
Umble
proper noun

How locals say Humble, TX — the H is silent.

#texas#houston#pronunciation#suburb
purple stuff
noun

Lean. The drink gets its colour from the promethazine.

#texas#houston#lean#drugs
The Nickel
proper noun

Houston's Fifth Ward — historic, hard, and often called 'The Bloody Nickel.'

#texas#houston#neighbourhood#hip-hop
Kuykendahl
proper noun

North Houston street whose 'Kirk-en-doll' pronunciation outs you as local or tourist.

#houston#texas#geography#shibboleth
flossin'
verb

Showing off the jewelry, the car, the bread — loud and unbothered.

#texas#houston#hip-hop#wealth
elbows
noun

Houston name for the long horizontally protruding wire wheels on a slab.

#texas#hip-hop#houston#cars
tippin'
verb

Cruising slow in a slab so everybody sees you.

#texas#houston#hip-hop#slab
what it do
phrase

Houston-flavoured 'what's up?' — the city's signature greeting.

#texas#houston#greeting#hip-hop
the feeder
noun phrase

Texan for the highway frontage/access road.

#texas#houston#geography#driving
84s
noun

The holy-grail 1984 Cragar wire rims — Houston slab royalty.

#texas#houston#slab#car-culture
slab Sunday
phrase

Houston's weekly meet-up where slab owners bring the candy paint out.

#texas#houston#slab#cars
Chuco Town
proper noun

Nickname for El Paso, Texas — the birthplace of pachuco culture.

#texas#el-paso#chicano#calo
chunk-deuce
phrase

Throw up a sideways peace sign — Houston's 'peace out'.

#texas#houston#hip-hop#gesture
Jerry World
proper noun

Dallas nickname for AT&T Stadium, Jerry Jones's billion-dollar Cowboys palace.

#dallas#texas#cowboys#nfl
somethin' foreign
phrase

A fancy overseas whip — your Benz, your Bentley, your Bimmer.

#texas#houston#hip-hop#cars
Big D
proper noun

Dallas's preferred local nickname for itself — no 'the' needed.

#dallas#texas#nickname#city
T-Jones
noun

Dallas slang for your mama (or the woman who raised you).

#dallas#texas#family#aave
knowmtalmbout
phrase

Dallas tag phrase — 'know what I'm talking about?'

#dallas#texas#aave#filler
purple drank
noun

Codeine-promethazine cough syrup mixed with soda and candy — the original name for lean.

#texas#hip-hop#houston#drugs
Large Marge
proper noun

Dallas nickname for the Margaret Hunt Hill Bridge.

#dallas#texas#bridge#landmark
Clutch City
proper noun

Houston's nickname, earned by the back-to-back-titles Rockets of '94 and '95.

#houston#texas#sports#nba
The 'Stead
proper noun

Homestead — north-east Houston neighbourhood.

#texas#houston#neighbourhood
nel pastel
phrase

Caló 'nope, no way' — rhyming play on 'nel' (no) and 'pastel' (cake).

#texas#calo#chicano#mexican-slang
quiubo
interjection

Caló 'what's up?' — contraction of ¿qué hubo?

#texas#calo#chicano#greeting
wrapped in four vogues
phrase

Rolling on Vogue Tyres — gold-striped whitewalls, slab standard.

#texas#houston#slab#car-culture
good drink
noun

Lean. Codeine-promethazine syrup in a styrofoam double cup.

#texas#houston#lean#drugs
al rato vato
phrase

Caló 'later, dude' — the rhyming Chicano goodbye.

#texas#calo#chicano#goodbye
SUC
noun

Screwed Up Click — DJ Screw's Houston rap collective.

#texas#houston#hip-hop#dj-screw
Bayou City
proper noun

Houston, named for the ten-plus bayous that vein the city.

#houston#texas#geography#nickname
nahtalmbout
phrase

Houston-mashed contraction of 'know what I'm talkin' 'bout'.

#houston#texas#aave#filler
kill
noun

Loud, potent weed — the strong stuff.

#texas#houston#weed#hip-hop
Screwston
noun

Houston's hometown nickname, in tribute to DJ Screw.

#texas#houston#hip-hop#dj-screw
swangin'
verb

Houston driving style — weaving a slab slow and wide across lanes to be seen.

#texas#hip-hop#houston#cars
on me
phrase

Oath formula — vouching personally, like 'on God' or 'on my mama'.

#dallas#texas#hip-hop#oath
chopped and screwed
phrase

Houston DJ technique — slow the track, chop it up.

#texas#houston#hip-hop#dj-screw
wuzhannin
interjection

Houston greeting — 'what's happening'.

#houston#texas#greeting#aave
sizzurp
noun

Hip-hop nickname for lean — codeine cough syrup mixed into soda.

#texas#hip-hop#memphis#drugs
güero
noun

A light-skinned, blond, or white person — Mexican-Spanish nickname.

#texas#calo#chicano#mexican-slang
P1
noun

A diehard listener of Dallas sports-radio station The Ticket (KTCK).

#dallas#texas#radio#sports
Texas tea
phrase

Houston nickname for lean — purple codeine drank.

#texas#hip-hop#houston#drugs
wood grain
phrase

Wood-grain steering wheel — a signature interior detail of a Houston slab.

#texas#hip-hop#houston#cars
slab
noun

Houston custom car — Slow, Loud And Bangin' — a candy-painted American luxury sedan on swangas.

#texas#hip-hop#houston#cars
grippin' grain
phrase

Hands on the wood-grain wheel — slab driving posture.

#texas#houston#slab#hip-hop
T.G.
proper noun

Trinity Gardens — north-east Houston neighbourhood.

#texas#houston#neighbourhood#hip-hop
parking lot pimpin'
phrase

Posting up in a parking lot in your slab to flirt and floss.

#texas#houston#slab#hip-hop
Valluco
noun

Someone from the Rio Grande Valley of deep South Texas.

#texas#rio-grande-valley#chicano#identity
San Quilmas
proper noun

Caló nickname for San Antonio, originally street slang for the county jail.

#san-antonio#texas#chicano#calo
Galvo
proper noun

Galveston — the beach city an hour south of Houston.

#texas#houston#geography#coast
The Trey
proper noun

Houston's Third Ward — Scarface country, Screwed Up territory.

#texas#houston#neighbourhood#hip-hop
El Chuco
proper noun

Caló name for El Paso — the root of the word 'pachuco.'

#el-paso#texas#chicano#calo
puro
adjective

San Antonio identity word — pure, exclusively, unmistakably local.

#san-antonio#texas#chicano#identity
the Tunnels
proper noun

Underground pedestrian network beneath downtown Dallas.

#dallas#texas#downtown#infrastructure
troca
noun

Pickup truck, in Tex-Mex Spanglish.

#texas#spanglish#tex-mex#border
screw tape
noun

DJ Screw's slowed-down cassette mixtapes out of Houston.

#texas#houston#hip-hop#dj-screw
slowed and throwed
phrase

Houston alt-name for chopped and screwed.

#texas#houston#hip-hop#swishahouse
H-town
noun

Houston, said like a local.

#texas#houston#hip-hop#regional
the Strip
proper noun

Cedar Springs Road — Dallas's main LGBTQ+ nightlife corridor in Oak Lawn.

#dallas#texas#lgbtq#nightlife
act
noun

Street name for Actavis promethazine codeine — the holy grail of lean ingredients.

#texas#hip-hop#drugs#lean
chuco
noun

Short for pachuco — also a nickname for El Paso.

#texas#la#calo#chicano
the loop
noun phrase

Houston's I-610 ring road; 'inner looper' = lives inside it.

#texas#houston#geography#infrastructure
Disney Streets
proper noun

NW Dallas pocket where every street is named after a Disney character.

#dallas#texas#neighborhood#real-estate
wock
noun

Wockhardt-brand promethazine codeine syrup — a prized lean ingredient.

#texas#hip-hop#drugs#lean
dank
adjective

Strong, sticky, smelly weed — a compliment.

#texas#houston#weed#stoner
draped up and dripped out
phrase

Iced in jewels, rolling in a candy-paint slab — Houston's full-flex setting.

#texas#houston#slab#hip-hop
piddler
noun

A prisoner who makes leather goods and crafts in the prison craft shop.

#prison#us-prison#craft#texas