Green’s Dictionary of Slang

(Can.) a 84l cc. (130fl oz) bottle of rye whisky.

1976		Interior News (BC) 15 Sept. 17/3: Frank Green of Telkwa won a Texas Mickey as part of the same draw.
1977		Province (Vancouver, BC) 22 Dec. 19/1: Texas mickeys, gallon-sized bottles of scotch, rye, rum, gin or vodka.
1983		100 Mile House Free Press (BC) 19 Oct. 21: [photo caption] Resident Cecilia Bowen won the grand prize of a Texas mickey.
1997		Edmonton jrnl (Alberta) 9 July 13/1: These days, the iultimate symbol is a bottle of liquor potent enough to kill a man [...] the Texas Mickey.
2001		Vancouver Sun (BC) 12 Jan. 17/4: The arrow is pointing at what used to be a real Texas Mickey — an empty liquor bottle.

(US) a fake bankroll, a note of a high denomination around a large number of notes of smaller denomination.

1975

J. Carr Bad (1995) 42: I carried a Texas roll – a wad of bills, mostly ones and fives with a few big bills on the outside.

(US drugs) inhalants.

2001

ONDCP Street Terms 21: Texas shoe shine — Inhalants.

(US prison) a prison.

1983

R. Klein Jailhouse Jargon and Street Sl. [unpub. ms.].

(drugs) marijuana.

1933		Benny Goodman [song title] Texas Tea Party.
1938		Winnipeg Trib. (Manitoba) 15 Sept. 9/1: ‘Texas tea’ is one of the many names applied to a marijuana cigarette.
1949		Monteleone Criminal Sl. (rev. edn).
1959		J.E. Schmidt Narcotics Lingo and Lore.
1969		R.R. Lingeman Drugs from A to Z (1970).
1971		‘Hassan-i-Sabbah’ Leaves of Grass 1: Pot / Texas Tea / Pod.
2001		ONDCP Street Terms 21: Texas pot [...] Texas tea — Marijuana.
2007		UGK ‘The Game Belongs To Me’ 🎵 We cornered the market on that Texas tea.

(US) an armadillo, as eaten faute de mieux during the Great Depression.

1983		‘Heat Moon’ Blue Highways 142: Texans call them ‘diggers’. [...] poor whites ate them with greens and cornbread during the Depression and called them ‘hoover hogs’ or ‘Texas turkeys’ [...] even now, poor blacks, calling them just ‘dillas,’ barbeque the soft meat.
2000		J. Foreman ‘Armadillo Pie’ in Don Coyote’s RV Cookbook 🌐 The Armadillo, or Texas Turkey, has been around for a long, long, long time. It was busy digging holes in the ground when the first man arrived on earth.