Well attestedNamed from the place
Texas mickey
noun · first attested 1987
A bottle named for Texas that is sold almost nowhere but Canada.
In Canadian usage, an oversized bottle of hard liquor holding three liters.
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Record
- Relationship
- Named from the place
- Confidence
- Well attestedThe place link is the standard scholarly account.
- Attested
- 1987
- Part of speech
- noun
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Texas
- In English
Texas mickey
In Canadian drink vocabulary a mickey is a small flask of 375 ml, so a Texas mickey is the joke version of one: three liters, often sold with a pump or a pouring cradle because it is too heavy to tip. The Dictionary of Canadianisms on Historical Principles records it from 1987 and treats it as Canadian throughout. The Texas reference is to the state's reputation for size, not to anything made there.
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