T, n. — Green’s Dictionary of Slang

T n.

[abbr.]

1. (US drugs) in drug senses.

(a) (drugs) marijuana [abbr. tea n. (4a)].

1950		Kerouac letter 6 Oct. in Charters I (1995) 231: I tell you, nothing beats the Mexican t.
1952		Lannoy & Masterson ‘Teen-age Hophead Jargon’ AS XXVII:1 30: T, n. Marijuana.
1957		Kerouac letter 25 Mar. in Charters II (1999) 19: Last night me and Allen and Peter go out and wander into an Arabian hangout for guys playing checkers [...] and smoking t out of big long pipes.
1971		E.E. Landy Underground Dict. (1972).
1989		J. Morton Lowspeak.
2001		ONDCP Street Terms 21: T — Cocaine; Marijuana.

(b) (US drugs) a gram of methamphetamine.

1986

Chapman NDAS.

1979

H. Feldman et al. Angel Dust 73: These ‘T-tabs’ cost $2 per ‘hit’. [...] A wide array of street names: PCP, dust, T, P.

(d) (also tee) Tuinal.

1997

L. Pettiway Workin’ It 202: Yeah, he was doing it all. Ritz and tees, you know. I never saw him get high in front of me.

(e) (N.Z. prison) temagesic.

2001

D. Looser Boobslang [U. Canterbury D.Phil. thesis] 184/1: T abbr. a temgesic .

(f) testosterone.

2018		R.T. Anderson When Harry Became Sally 60: ‘I was transitioning. I thought taking t [testosterone] [sic] was what I needed to do and it seemed to be helping’.
2020		A. Shrier Irreversible Damage 55: Ecstatic about being ‘on T,’ [...] they are the undeniable drug and surgery boosters of the trans world.
2024		M.M. Olohan Trans 120: When Luka stopped taking ‘T,’ she was having quite a bit of joint pain.

2. (US) Tijuana, Mexico.

1972

C. Bukowski Erections, Ejaculations etc. 164: Jaime Bravo, he fights mostly out of T.

3. (orig. US, also tee) a T-shirt.

1972		Ellis & Newman ‘The greaser is a “bad ass”; the gowster is a “muthah”’ in Kochman Rappin’ and Stylin’ Out 370: The ‘gowster,’ seemed to have its counterpart among poor white youth. Typical of the kind of feedback we received was [...] ‘Put a “dago-T” on the “gowster” and you’ve got a “greaser”.’.
1978		L. Kramer Faggots 160: Tight T’s and tight jeans.
1997		(con. 1970s) G. Pelecanos King Suckerman (1998) 129: Jimmy dressed in jeans and a long-sleeved T.
1998		L. Stringer Grand Central Winter (1999) 219: Almost everyone [...] strips down to a T in their more casual moments.
1999		Indep. on Sun. Real Life 19 Dec. 2: The basic black tee (big and comfy for men, tight and sexy for women).
2000		Indep. on Sun. Real Life 16 Jan. 8: Pure white cotton Ts.
2002		D.H. Sterry Chicken (2003) 5: I come with long feet and big hands, nut-hugging elephantbells, a too-tight T [...] and red high-tops.
2004		Guardian Weekend 23 Oct. 93: They’re winter’s warmer answer to the printed T.
2008		G. Pelecanos Way Home (2009) 287: He [...] thrust the Taurus in his waistband, under his T.
2010		L. Berney Gutshot Straight [ebook] Gina sat on the stage steps to pull her T and shorts back on.
2012		Kingsway Gleaner 13 Oct. 🌐 Allen is the brain behind Slang Teez, which produces T shirts showcasing slang.
2015		S. King Finders Keepers (2016) 243: In his heavyset days he used to steer clear of tees.

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