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Tex-Mex, a. and n.|ˈtɛksmɛks|
[f. Texan a. and n. + Mexican a. and n.: cf. Tex n.1 and Mex a. and n.]
A. adj. Designating the Texan variety of something Mexican; also occas., of or pertaining to both Texas and Mexico.
1949Time 14 Feb. 38/1 Fluent in Texmex Spanish, he had been one of the most promising rodeo riders around Tucson, Ariz... The half English, half Spanish patois of the U.S.-Mexican border region. 1973News (Mexico City) (Vistas Suppl.) 22 July 7 It is a mistake to come to Mexico and not try the local cuisine. It is not the Tex-Mex cooking that one is used to getting in the United States. 1976M. Machlin Pipeline xx. 246 The voice of Miss Martinez, one of Wilbur's gestures toward Tex-Mex integration, came softly over the intercom. 1977Time Out 28 Jan.–3 Feb. 8/2 Cooder's current concern is the music of Southern Texas, the ‘Tex-Mex’ style.
B. n. The Texan variety of Mexican Spanish.
1955W. Foster-Harris Look of Old West vii. 211 Northern cowboys had their chance to mess up Spanish even more than had the Texas cowhands, with their Tex-Mex, which, incidentally, is a language in itself. 1969J. Mander Static Society i. 32 A hybrid, like the ‘Tex-Mex’ spoken in the south-west of the United States. 1981Verbatim Spring 24/1 The only foreign language she knows is Tex-Mex.
▸ Also Texmex. A Texan style of cooking using Mexican ingredients, and characterized by the adaptation of Mexican dishes, frequently with more moderate use of hot flavourings such as chilli; food cooked in this style.
1963N.Y. Times Mag. 11 Aug. 50/1 Star of the evening was her Texas or Tex-Mex chili. 1966Great Bend (Kansas) Daily Tribune 19 Oct. 5/4 It's too bad that it has become known as ‘chilli powder’ because some homemakers may associate it only with the preparation of ‘Tex-Mex’ dishes. 1988Independent 4 Aug. 20/5 We..eat Texmex, half steaks and salad and ice-cream, and half..cheese and tortillas. 1993T. Watada in E. Philips & G. Ursell Grain Fall (1993) 64 Once the cheque from Alex's office cleared, we ate nothing but Tex-Mex. 2000B. Geddes World Food: Mexico 26 At one time, much of present day US was part of Mexico. This included the states of California and Texas which explains the presence or restaurants on both sides of the border offering cooking styles known as Cal-Mex and Tex-Mex.
Also tex-mex. A broad genre of folk and popular music associated with Mexican-American inhabitants of Texas, characterized by use of the accordion and guitar, and often incorporating elements of Czech and German dance music; (occas.) spec. the more traditional form of this music, typically played by small dance bands, and more recently by rock and blues-influenced performers, as distinguished from a modern, more commercial form strongly influenced by pop and jazz. Cf. Tejano n. and adj. and musica norteña n.
1968Rolling Stone 7 Dec. 19/3 To find the derivation of Tex-Mex as a rock word though, we have to go clear up to the Panhandle. 1977Washington Post 22 May (Mag. section) 49 Five stages will hold groups of various musical persuasions: blues, tex-mex, old-time, country, gospel, balladeers, bluegrass, [etc.]. 1991Sassy Aug. 40/2 There are also nods to semi-obscure rockabilly, surf, garage, Tex-Mex and psychedelia of days past. 2003Rolling Stone 21 Aug. 76/2 The Garza brothers, of San Angelo, Texas, sound like they can fire up some mean Tex-Mex, country blues and Fifties rock in their sleep. |