Tina

[tee-nuh]

noun

1. a female given name.

tina

/ ˈtiːnə /

noun

1. a slang word for crystal meth

Word History and Origins

Origin of tina¹

C21: so called because it is commonly bought in ( six ) teen ( ths ) of an ounce

Example Sentences

During the 1990s he privately criticized the “barbarians” brought in by a new editor, Tina Brown, but admitted to Garrison Keillor his “own unprincipled connivance with the Tina regime.”

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She was intrigued, but she worried that the story was too offbeat to appeal to the celebrity focus of the New Yorker’s then editor, Tina Brown.

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“We have to step up as governors to do this because the federal government is not a trusted partner right now,” said Gov. Tina Kotek of Oregon, one of four states in a newly formed group they call the West Coast Health Alliance.

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Oregon Gov. Tina Kotek said the deployment appeared to circumvent the federal judge’s Saturday ruling.

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The only involvement Tina Singh had in her daughter’s private high-school search last year was to interview educational consultants and hire one.

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