Texan
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- noun
- /ˈtɛksən/
- Well you know I'm a Texan, but I can still enjoy a glass of vodka.
- young Texan
- Texans believe
- a third of Texans
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Watch on YouTubeLove Billy Gibbons, he's a Texan, incredible person and guitar player.
- Love Billy Gibbons, he's a Texan, incredible person and guitar player.
- I love the Russian people, And of course I love my fellow Americans, Californians and Midwesterners, New Yorkers and Texans.
- So I got to do my like Yankee impression if the Texans let me think how to do this.
- Maybe this is part of some deep state psyop to get me cancelled by Texans.
Examples
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And Texans love to make money, yes, they do.
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Well ladies and gentlemen, not since the Alamo have the Texans suffered such a defeat at the hands of the Mexicans.
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And put a Texan in the White House!
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In Texas, only Texans can rob banks!
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Austin enters to see a gregarious Texan in a huge cowboy hat.
Fiction book (1997) -
Y'know, it's not every day we Texans get to entertain the future President of the United States.
Fiction book (1995) -
Welcome, fellow Texans.
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The play is based on a historical incident in 1841 when Texans attempted to annex parts of New Mexico.
Academic text (1990) -
Many pioneer Anglo-Texans and Californians joined in these festivities and sometimes entered the contests.
Academic text (1994) -
Welcome, Texan friends! It's great to see you all at this annual barbecue.
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Texan is made from Texas and the ending -an, which means 'a person from' a place, like Canadian. Texas comes from a Native American word tejas meaning 'friends', so a Texan is literally 'a person from the land of friends'.