(especially of cooking and music) having a blend of Mexican and southern American features originally characteristic of the border regions of Texas and Mexico:Tex-Mex ingredientsTex-Mex dance music
noun
[mass noun]
1Tex-Mex music or cookery:it serves very decent Tex-Mex
2a variety of Mexican Spanish spoken in Texas.
Origin:
1940s: blend of Texan and Mexican
Tex-Mex in other Oxford dictionaries
Definition of Tex-Mex in the US English dictionary
