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🛢️ Texas oil city 🇺🇦 Ukrainian port city
Odessa

Odessa

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A city in western Texas known for oil production
  • proper noun
  • /əˈdɛsə/
: Odessa (Texas)
  • The city of Odessa is a hub for oil production and industry in western Texas.
  • Odessa, Texas
  • Midland-Odessa
  • Permian Basin Odessa

I feel this is Chucky from Odessa, TX.

Examples

  • His biggest and most dramatic acquisition had been a nearly bankrupt oil and gas company in Odessa.

    Fiction book (2002)

  • I started working on the oil rigs up north around Odessa when I was sixteen, telling those doing the hiring I was older.

    Fiction book (1993)

  • It's only, I think like an hour or two away from Odessa by by train.

  • How far is it from Odessa to your school?

    Friday Night Lights (2004)

  • You look like someone who'll get out of Odessa, Texas one day and never look back.

    Friday Night Lights (2004)

  • In Odessa, Texas, the great Frank Cushman.

    Fiction book (1996)

  • Roughnecks say you can get a job out in Odessa anytime.

    The Last Picture Show (1971)

  • It's Odessa, Texas!

    The Baytown Outlaws (2012)

  • In Odessa, Texas.

    Jerry Maguire (1996)

  • This had first been done in 1988 when Buzz Bissinger wrote Friday Night Lights, a behind-the-scenes look at Permian High School's football program in Odessa, Texas.

    Blog text (1)

Surface Forms

Odessa main

Etymology

Odessa in Texas was named after the Ukrainian Odessa, which itself comes from the ancient Greek town Odessos, so the Texas city carries the same older name and is easy to remember as a place named after the Black Sea port.