#texas
92 words tagged “texas”
Texas/Gulf-Coast rap as the third hip-hop region, after East and West.
A tense situation — beef, drama, or trouble brewing.
Dallas archetype: average earner flexing luxury they can't actually afford.
True + real, fused. The realest stamp of approval in Southern rap.
About to swing by — Houston cruising vocabulary.
The Rio Grande Valley — deep South Texas along the Mexico border.
Marketing-coined label for the Dallas–Fort Worth metro region.
Swerving a slab side-to-side down the street on purpose.
The spare tire mounted vertical on the trunk of a Houston slab — chrome, swangin', mandatory.
Caló for 'no problem / no sweat' — literally 'no fart.'
Hiram Clarke — south-west Houston neighbourhood.
Chicano Caló shortening of San Antonio.
Cheap fast food from the hood — wing spots, taquerias, corner-store plates.
Translucent wet-look paint job in Skittle-bright colors — the defining finish of a Houston slab.
Protruding 30-spoke wire wheels fitted to Houston slabs — also called elbows.
Sprite cut with codeine cough syrup — another name for lean.
Pimp C's name for UGK's slow, gospel-soaked Texas sound.
'Downtown' in Houston drawl.
Past tense of 'overstand' — understood, agreed, and locked in.
Houston interjection — 'man, hold up'.
The 2000 Three 6 x UGK single that put purple drank on the national map.
Wasted on lean — or, depending on tone, just incredibly cool.
Tex-Mex Spanglish for 'watch out' or 'check this out.'
Acres Homes — named after the #44 Metro bus that runs through it.
Remote-popping trunk rigged with neon, amps and speakers.
Junk, odds and ends, random clutter.
Missouri City — Houston's southwest suburb, half-jokingly 'Misery City.'
How locals say Humble, TX — the H is silent.
Lean. The drink gets its colour from the promethazine.
Houston's Fifth Ward — historic, hard, and often called 'The Bloody Nickel.'
North Houston street whose 'Kirk-en-doll' pronunciation outs you as local or tourist.
Showing off the jewelry, the car, the bread — loud and unbothered.
Houston name for the long horizontally protruding wire wheels on a slab.
Cruising slow in a slab so everybody sees you.
Houston-flavoured 'what's up?' — the city's signature greeting.
Texan for the highway frontage/access road.
The holy-grail 1984 Cragar wire rims — Houston slab royalty.
Houston's weekly meet-up where slab owners bring the candy paint out.
Nickname for El Paso, Texas — the birthplace of pachuco culture.
Throw up a sideways peace sign — Houston's 'peace out'.
Dallas nickname for AT&T Stadium, Jerry Jones's billion-dollar Cowboys palace.
A fancy overseas whip — your Benz, your Bentley, your Bimmer.
Dallas's preferred local nickname for itself — no 'the' needed.
Dallas slang for your mama (or the woman who raised you).
Dallas tag phrase — 'know what I'm talking about?'
Codeine-promethazine cough syrup mixed with soda and candy — the original name for lean.
Dallas nickname for the Margaret Hunt Hill Bridge.
Houston's nickname, earned by the back-to-back-titles Rockets of '94 and '95.
Homestead — north-east Houston neighbourhood.
Caló 'nope, no way' — rhyming play on 'nel' (no) and 'pastel' (cake).
Caló 'what's up?' — contraction of ¿qué hubo?
Rolling on Vogue Tyres — gold-striped whitewalls, slab standard.
Lean. Codeine-promethazine syrup in a styrofoam double cup.
Caló 'later, dude' — the rhyming Chicano goodbye.
Screwed Up Click — DJ Screw's Houston rap collective.
Houston, named for the ten-plus bayous that vein the city.
Houston-mashed contraction of 'know what I'm talkin' 'bout'.
Loud, potent weed — the strong stuff.
Houston's hometown nickname, in tribute to DJ Screw.
Houston driving style — weaving a slab slow and wide across lanes to be seen.
Oath formula — vouching personally, like 'on God' or 'on my mama'.
Houston DJ technique — slow the track, chop it up.
Houston greeting — 'what's happening'.
Hip-hop nickname for lean — codeine cough syrup mixed into soda.
A light-skinned, blond, or white person — Mexican-Spanish nickname.
A diehard listener of Dallas sports-radio station The Ticket (KTCK).
Houston nickname for lean — purple codeine drank.
Wood-grain steering wheel — a signature interior detail of a Houston slab.
Houston custom car — Slow, Loud And Bangin' — a candy-painted American luxury sedan on swangas.
Hands on the wood-grain wheel — slab driving posture.
Trinity Gardens — north-east Houston neighbourhood.
Posting up in a parking lot in your slab to flirt and floss.
Someone from the Rio Grande Valley of deep South Texas.
Caló nickname for San Antonio, originally street slang for the county jail.
Galveston — the beach city an hour south of Houston.
Houston's Third Ward — Scarface country, Screwed Up territory.
Caló name for El Paso — the root of the word 'pachuco.'
San Antonio identity word — pure, exclusively, unmistakably local.
Underground pedestrian network beneath downtown Dallas.
Pickup truck, in Tex-Mex Spanglish.
DJ Screw's slowed-down cassette mixtapes out of Houston.
Houston alt-name for chopped and screwed.
Houston, said like a local.
Cedar Springs Road — Dallas's main LGBTQ+ nightlife corridor in Oak Lawn.
Street name for Actavis promethazine codeine — the holy grail of lean ingredients.
Short for pachuco — also a nickname for El Paso.
Houston's I-610 ring road; 'inner looper' = lives inside it.
NW Dallas pocket where every street is named after a Disney character.
Wockhardt-brand promethazine codeine syrup — a prized lean ingredient.
Strong, sticky, smelly weed — a compliment.
Iced in jewels, rolling in a candy-paint slab — Houston's full-flex setting.
A prisoner who makes leather goods and crafts in the prison craft shop.