ProbableNamed from the place
Texas tea
noun · first attested 20th century
Oil as a beverage: the joke reached America through a TV theme song.
Slang for crude oil.
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- 20th century
- Part of speech
- noun
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Texas tea
Texas became a synonym for oil after the Spindletop gusher of 1901 and the fields that followed it. The phrase reached most Americans through the theme to The Beverly Hillbillies in the 1960s, which paired it with black gold.
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