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Tex-Mex
[ teks-meks ]
adjective
- of or relating to aspects of culture that combine Mexican and Texan or southwestern U.S. features, especially aspects of culture developed in southern Texas based on or influenced by Mexican elements:
Tex-Mex cooking; Tex-Mex music.
noun
- a form of Mexican Spanish having elements of English and spoken near the border of Texas and Mexico, especially Mexican Spanish as spoken in Texas.
- Music. norteño.
Tex-Mex
/ ˈtɛksˌmɛks /
adjective
- of, relating to, or denoting the Texan version of something Mexican, such as music, food, or language
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Word History and Origins
Origin of Tex-Mex1
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Example Sentences
Founded in Dallas, Texas, in 1975, it helped introduce the world outside of Texas to the compelling flavor profiles of Tex-Mex cuisine, and opened restaurants in far-flung locales like Morocco and Costa Rica.
Those are fighting words in a nearly half-Latino city where Tex-Mex restaurants outnumber all others.
In fact, quite the opposite—I suspect that my own experience epitomizes, in miniature, the Tex-Mex revival as a whole.
The former accused him of cooking inauthentic Mexican food; the latter accused him of cooking inauthentic Tex-Mex.
Texas expats wax rhapsodic about the Tex-Mex food of their youth.
“With Bar Ama, what I wanted to do, conceptually, was to take the ideas around Tex-Mex and make them my own,” he said.
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