tina

alternative Tina

1. slanguncountableThe drug methamphetamine hydrochloride (crystal meth).

plural Tinas

1. countableuncountableA female given name.

   Oregon Gov. Tina Kotek wrote on social media Saturday her office had not been notified why the troops were being deployed.

   2025 September 27, Kit Maher, “Trump says he’s sending troops to Portland to protect ICE facilities”, in CNN

   1. countableuncountableA female given name from Ancient Greek.
   2. countableuncountableA female given name from Latin.
2. countableuncountableA lake in Alaska, near/around Anchorage.

1. slanguncountableAlternative letter-case form of tina (“crystal meth”).

   People struggling to merely exist on a Monday smoke Tina because they feel it's the only way to overcome the dreaded comedown from all the other drugs they've taken.

   2017, James Wharton, Something for the Weekend, Biteback Publishing, →ISBN

1. Alternative letter-case form of TINA (“there is no alternative”)

1. abbreviationacronymAcronym of there is no alternative, a political slogan of Margaret Thatcher, promoting liberal capitalism.

   Tina / There is no alternative / But I got to live (You know)

   2025, “Tina”, in Jarvis Cocker (lyrics), More, performed by Pulp

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   Above all else, they allowed me seriously to ponder the hardest of questions: once we have conceived of a feasible socialism that blasts Thatcher’s Tina out of the water, what must we do, and how far are we willing to go, to bring it about?

   2020 September 4, Yanis Varoufakis, “Yanis Varoufakis: capitalism isn't working. Here's an alternative”, in The Guardian, →ISSN