Berkeley-on-the-Brazos (UT-Austin nickname)

Harvard-on-the-Brazos (Baylor, Texas A&M nickname)

Moscow-on-the-Brazos (Austin nickname)

People’s Republic of Austin (Austin nickname)

Blueberry in the Tomato Soup (Austin political nickname)

“Feed a pigeon, breed a rat”

Un-Texas (Austin nickname)

“Keep Dallas Plastic”

Texas Fizz (cocktail)

Harvard on the Border (UTEP nickname)

Harvard on the Neches (Lamar University nickname)

Harvard on the Highway (San Jacinto College nickname)

Harvard of the South (Rice University nickname)

Allergy Capital of the World (Austin nickname)

Shrimp Scampi

“Perseverance and sweet oil”

Free Lunch

“No more free lunch!” (Fiorello La Guardia)

Baja Oklahoma

“Keep Abilene Boring”

SXSW

“A Texan is a Mexican who couldn’t swim to Oklahoma” (dirty joke definition)

Nuclear Taco

“Keep Houston Dirty”

Yeehaw (Yee-ha; Yee-haw)

Spring Forward, Fall Back

Malfunction Junction (College Station)

Do Texas Different (El Paso slogan)

Jambalaya

“It’s the last thing you take off and the first thing that is noticed” (cowboy hat)

“Never approach a bull from the front, a horse from the rear or a fool from any direction”

Panuchos

“There never was a horse that couldn’t be rode or a man that couldn’t be throwed” (Will James)

“A cowboy is a man with guts and a horse”

Irish Coffee (Gaelic Coffee)

Westside Manhattan (cocktail)

Poor Boy (four lane undivided highway)

Poor Boy Sandwich (Po’ Boy Sandwich)

Cowboy Boots

Condo Coast

Texican

“Turn Around, Don’t Drown” (flash flood warning)

Texicali (Texicalli)

Mexicali (Mexicalli)

Texass (“The jackass is the finest flower of Texass”—Groucho Marx)

“Nacogdoches is full of roaches” (Groucho Marx)

Queso Fries

Condotel (condo + hotel)

Texian

Presidential Corridor

Red Ass

“Keep Texas Wild”

Tejano

Norteño

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