taco
English
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Etymology
Borrowed from Spanish taco (“light lunch”, literally “stopper, plug, wad”).
Pronunciation
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- Rhymes: -ækəʊ, -ɑːkəʊ
Audio (Canada): (file)
Noun
taco (plural tacos)
- a Mexican snack food; a small tortilla (soft or hard shelled), with typically some type of meat, rice, beans, cheese, diced vegetables (usually tomatoes and lettuce, as served in the United States, and cilantro, onion, and avocado, as served in México) and salsa
- (US, slang) the vulva
- Synonym: pink taco
- 2007, Various, Sex & Seduction: 20 Erotic Stories, Accent Press Ltd., page 130:
- […] while grinding her pink taco into my groin as if trying to gain even more of my sizable ...
- 2009, Albert Mudrian, Precious Metal: Decibel Presents the Stories Behind 25 Extreme Metal Masterpieces, Da Capo Press, page 159:
- […] zombies have to eat and the best place to on any female is the pink taco.
- 2015, Cynthia Dane, A Fragile Wife: A Billionaire Romance (Barachou Press):
- " […] was it really necessary to make your maid piss herself? Even if you think your husband is hiding his sausage in her taco, that was brazen. Jesus, Lana."
- (US, slang) a yellow stain on a shirt armpit caused by sweat or deodorant
Derived terms
Translations
Mexican snack food
Verb
taco (third-person singular simple present tacos, present participle tacoing, simple past and past participle tacoed)
- (slang) to fold or cause to buckle in half, similar to the way a taco is folded
- 1996, Arizona Highways - Volume 72, page 9:
- The boat tacoed — the front and rear bent in — and I was holding onto a strap on the frame, sitting more on the tube than the frame, and I was catapulted forward.
- 2003, Bob Roll, Bobke II, →ISBN, page 91:
- J.T. was in full scoop mode and whaling down the descent and he creamed into the dude, tacoed his front wheel, sheared off his front brake, and came as close to cursing as he ever has.
- 2008, Sally Stenhouse Kneidel, Going Green: A Wise Consumer's Guide to a Shrinking Planet:
- I'd left it in neutral and it rolled straight back into the barn and tacoed that door.
- 2016, Jennifer Moore, Safe Harbor, →ISBN:
- He turned off the light and laid on the couch, tacoing the pillow behind his head and inhaling the smell of Melanie Owen.
Anagrams
Catalan
Pronunciation
Verb
taco
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Finnish
Pronunciation
Noun
taco
Declension
Inflection of taco (Kotus type 1/valo, no gradation) | |||
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nominative | taco | tacot | |
genitive | tacon | tacojen | |
partitive | tacoa | tacoja | |
illative | tacoon | tacoihin | |
singular | plural | ||
nominative | taco | tacot | |
accusative | nom. | taco | tacot |
gen. | tacon | ||
genitive | tacon | tacojen | |
partitive | tacoa | tacoja | |
inessive | tacossa | tacoissa | |
elative | tacosta | tacoista | |
illative | tacoon | tacoihin | |
adessive | tacolla | tacoilla | |
ablative | tacolta | tacoilta | |
allative | tacolle | tacoille | |
essive | tacona | tacoina | |
translative | tacoksi | tacoiksi | |
abessive | tacotta | tacoitta | |
instructive | — | tacoin | |
comitative | See the possessive forms below. |
Pali
Alternative forms
Alternative scripts
Noun
taco
- nominative singular of taca (“skin”)
Portuguese
Pronunciation
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- Rhymes: -aku
Etymology 1
Unknown.
Noun
taco m (plural tacos)
Derived terms
Etymology 2
Noun
taco m (plural tacos)
- taco (a Mexican snack food)
Etymology 3
See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
Verb
taco
Spanish
Pronunciation
Etymology 1
Mexican Spanish, from Old French tache (“bolt, nail”), from Middle Low German Zacke (“sharp point”).
Noun
taco m (plural tacos)
- (Mexico, food) taco
- peg (a short, thick piece of wood, metal, or other material)
- dowel (a longer piece of wood, plastic, or other material)
- stopper, plug, wad (small bundle of material made to cover, stop, or fill a hole)
- (Argentina, Bolivia, Chile, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, Paraguay, Peru, Uruguay) heel (of a shoe)
- (sports) cue (a stick used to play billiards, snooker, pool, etc)
- (Chile) traffic jam
- (Spain) a curse word, a swear word, a profanity, a slur
- (Spain, colloquial) a load, a lot
- (Spain, colloquial, in plural) years of age
Derived terms
See also
Etymology 2
See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
Verb
taco
Anagrams
Venetian
Etymology
Noun
taco m (plural tachi)
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