texas

See also: Texas and Texas'

English

Etymology

From the practice of naming cabins after US states, the state of Texas having been recently admitted to the Union.

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /ˈtɛk.səs/
  • Rhymes: -ɛksəs
  • Hyphenation: tex‧as
  • Audio (US)(file)

Noun

texas (plural texases)

  1. The topmost cabin deck on a steamboat.
    • 1866, New Albany Ledger, October 6 (describing the steamboat Robert E. Lee)
      She has sixty one staterooms in the main cabin, twenty four extra rooms in the texas for passengers, a nursery for servants and children, and a cabin adjoining the nursery in which are staterooms for fifty passengers.

Anagrams

Ido

Verb

texas

  1. present of texar

Latin

Verb

texās

  1. second-person singular present active subjunctive of texō

Norwegian

Adjective

texas

  1. (slang) crazy, wild.

Usage notes

Often used in the phrase "det var helt texas", meaning "it was totally/absolutely/completely crazy/wild".[1]

References
  1. Solomon, David (2015-10-20), “Y'all, Norwegians Use the Word 'Texas' as Slang to Mean 'Crazy'”, in Texas Monthly‎
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