Meanings
nounTexas dip (plural Texas dips)
plural Texas dips
- A form of elaborate curtsey and prostration performed in Texas during debutante balls.
“The Protestant establishment isn't threatening anymore. They're never going to run the world again, so it's safe to do the Texas dip,” says Richard Brookhiser, who wrote “The Way of the WASP.”
1997 January 5, Maureen Dowd, quoting Richard Brookhiser, “WASP's Bite Back”, in The New York Times, →ISSN
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Texas dip. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Texas%20dip
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