taco

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish taco (“light lunch”, literally “stopper, plug, wad”).

Pronunciation

• (US) enPR: tä′kō, IPA^(key): /ˈtɑkoʊ/,
  • (US, historically) IPA^(key): /ˈteɪkoʊ/,
• (UK) enPR: tă′kō, IPA^(key): /ˈtækəʊ/
  • (UK, historically) IPA^(key): /ˈteɪkəʊ/
• (General Australian, New Zealand) enPR: täʹkō, IPA^(key): /ˈtɐːkəʊ/
  • (General Australian, New Zealand, historically) IPA^(key): /ˈtæɪkəʊ/
• (Canada) IPA^(key): ,

• Audio (Canada)

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• Rhymes: -ækəʊ, -ɑːkəʊ
• Hyphenation: ta‧co

Noun

taco (plural tacos)

1. (cooking) A Mexican snack food made of a small tortilla (soft or hard shelled) filled with ingredients such as meat, rice, beans, cheese, diced vegetables and salsa.
2. (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."

3. (US, slang) A yellow stain on a shirt armpit caused by sweat or deodorant.

Derived terms

Translations

Verb

taco (third-person singular simple present tacos, present participle tacoing, simple past and past participle tacoed)

1. (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.

Further reading

• taco on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• ATOC, CATO, Cato, Cota, coat, octa, octa-

Catalan

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Central)
• IPA^(key): (Balearic, Valencian)

Verb

taco

1. first-person singular present indicative of tacar

Finnish

Etymology

From Spanish taco.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈtɑko/,
• Syllabification^(key): ta‧co

Noun

taco

1. taco

Declension

Derived terms

Further reading

• “taco”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja [Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish]‎ (in Finnish) (online dictionary, continuously updated), Kotimaisten kielten keskuksen verkkojulkaisuja 35, Helsinki: Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus (Institute for the Languages of Finland), 2004–, retrieved 2023-07-03

Italian

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from Spanish taco.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈta.ko/
• Rhymes: -ako
• Hyphenation: tà‧co

Noun

taco m (plural tacos)

1. (cooking) taco (Mexican snack food)

Further reading

• taco in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana

Pali

Alternative forms

Noun

taco

1. nominative singular of taca (“skin”)

Polish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈta.t͡sɔ/
• Rhymes: -at͡sɔ
• Syllabification: ta‧co

Noun

taco f

1. vocative singular of taca

Portuguese

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -aku

Etymology 1

Unknown.

Noun

taco m (plural tacos)

1. (sports) cue; bat; stick (any long implement used to hit the ball or puck in certain sports)
2. (Brazil) bete-ombro

Derived terms

Etymology 2

Borrowed from Spanish taco.

Noun

taco m (plural tacos)

1. taco (a Mexican snack food)

Etymology 3

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Verb

taco

1. first-person singular present indicative of tacar

Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈtako/
• Rhymes: -ako
• Syllabification: ta‧co

Etymology 1

Mexican Spanish, from Old French tache (“bolt, nail”).

Noun

taco m (plural tacos)

1. (Mexico, cooking) taco
2. peg (a short, thick piece of wood, metal, or other material)
3. dowel (a longer piece of wood, plastic, or other material)
4. stopper, plug, wad (small bundle of material made to cover, stop, or fill a hole)
5. (Argentina, Bolivia, Chile, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, Paraguay, Peru, Uruguay) heel (of a shoe)
6. (sports) cue (a stick used to play billiards, snooker, pool, etc)
7. (Chile) traffic jam
8. (Spain) curse word, swear word

   Synonyms: juramento, palabrota, voto

   Empezó a soltar tacos. ― He started swearing.

9. (Spain, colloquial) a load, a lot

   Synonym: montón

10. (Spain, colloquial, in the plural) years of age

    Synonyms: año, primavera

    Hoy cumplo veinticinco tacos. ― Today, I turn twenty-five years old.

Derived terms

Descendants

• → English: taco

See also

• billar

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Verb

taco

1. first-person singular present indicative of tacar

Further reading

• taco on the Spanish Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^es
• “taco”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014

Anagrams

• acto, cato, cota, toca

Swedish

Swedish Wikipedia has an article on:

taco

Wikipedia ^sv

Noun

taco c

1. (cooking) a taco

   Vi borde äta tacos ikväll

   We should have tacos tonight

Usage notes

The plural "tacos" refers to the dish, like in English.

Declension

Derived terms

• tacoskal (“taco shell”)

References

• taco in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)

Venetian

Etymology

Compare Italian tacco.

Noun

taco m (plural tachi)

1. heel