taco

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

Hyphenation: ta‧co enPR: tä′kō, Rhymes: -ɑːkəʊ

• IPA^(key): /ˈtɑkoʊ/, [ˈtʰɑkoʊ] (US)
• IPA^(key): /ˈtɐːkəʊ/ (General Australian, New Zealand)
• IPA^(key): [ˈtʰä(ː)ko(ː)] (Canada)

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enPR: tă′kō, Rhymes: -ækəʊ

• IPA^(key): /ˈtækəʊ/ (UK)
• IPA^(key): [ˈtʰako(ː)] (Canada)
• IPA^(key): /ʈakoː/ (Indic, Anglicised pronunciation)

enPR: thă′kō, thä′kō,

• IPA^(key): /t̪a(ː)koː/ (Indic, adapted Spanish pronunciation)

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's armpit caused by sweat or deodorant.

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.

• taco on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

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

• IPA^(key): (Central) [ˈta.ku]
• IPA^(key): (Balearic, Valencia) [ˈta.ko]

taco

1. first-person singular present indicative of tacar

Borrowed from Spanish taco.

• Audio:

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• Hyphenation: ta‧co

taco m (plural taco's, diminutive tacootje n)

1. taco

From Spanish taco.

• IPA^(key): /ˈtɑko/, [ˈt̪ɑ̝ko̞]
• Rhymes: -ɑko
• Syllabification^(key): ta‧co
• Hyphenation^(key): ta‧co

taco

1. taco

• “taco”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja [Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish]‎^[1] (in Finnish) (online dictionary, continuously updated), Kotimaisten kielten keskuksen verkkojulkaisuja 35, Helsinki: Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus (Institute for the Languages of Finland), 2004–, retrieved 3 July 2023

• IPA^(key): /ˈta.t͡ʃo/, [ˈt̪a.t͡ʃo]
• Rhymes: -t͡ʃo
• Hyphenation: ta‧co

taco (plural taco-taco)

1. (cooking) alternative spelling of tako (“taco”)

• “taco” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016.

Unadapted borrowing from Spanish taco.

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

taco m (plural tacos)

1. (cooking) taco (Mexican snack food)

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

taco

1. nominative singular of taca (“skin”)

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

taco f

1. vocative singular of taca

• Rhymes: -aku

Unknown. Possibly borrowed from Spanish taco.

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
3. (Portugal, colloquial, uncountable) money

   Synonyms: see Thesaurus:dinheiro

Borrowed from Spanish taco.

taco m (plural tacos)

1. taco (a Mexican snack food)

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

taco

1. first-person singular present indicative of tacar

• IPA^(key): /ˈtako/ [ˈt̪a.ko]

• Audio (Venezuela):

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• Rhymes: -ako
• Syllabification: ta‧co

Uncertain, probably borrowed from Italian tacco; ultimately from Proto-Germanic *takkô (“spike, nail”).

taco m (plural tacos)

1. (Mexico, Central America, Bolivia, 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)
   1. (sports) cue (a stick used to play billiards, snooker, pool, etc)
      1. (colloquial, Peru, Bolivia) billiards
      2. (slang, Venezuela, Ecuador) billiards player
      3. (colloquial, Peru) pool hall
   2. (Rioplatense, sports) polo-stick; mallet
4. stopper, plug, wad (small bundle of material made to cover, stop, or fill a hole)
5. (Nicaragua, Puerto Rico, Andes, Dominican Republic, Southern Cone) heel (of a shoe)
   1. (Mexico, Honduras, El Salvador, Nicaragua, Costa Rica, Panama, Colombia) cleats

      Synonym: tachones

   2. (colloquial, Colombia) shoe
6. (Chile) traffic jam
7. (Spain) curse word, swear word

   Synonyms: juramento, palabrota, voto

   Empezó a soltar tacos. ― He started swearing.

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

   Synonym: montón

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

   Synonyms: año, primavera

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

• → English: taco

• billar

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

taco

1. first-person singular present indicative of tacar

• taco on the Spanish Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^es
• “taco”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 10 December 2024
• “taco”, in Diccionario de americanismos [Dictionary of Americanisms] (in Spanish), Association of Academies of the Spanish Language [Spanish: Asociación de Academias de la Lengua Española], 2010
• Manuel Seco, Olimpia Andrés, Gabino Ramos (3 August 2023) “taco”, in Diccionario del español actual [Dictionary of Current Spanish] (in Spanish), third digital edition, Fundación BBVA [BBVA Foundation]
• taco | Diccionario • DELE Ahora

• acto, cato, cota, toca

taco c

1. (cooking) a taco

   Vi borde äta tacos ikväll

   We should have tacos tonight

• The plural "tacos" refers to the dish, like in English, and occasionally also to a single taco.
• People sometimes think of "tacos" as a dish in the singular, giving "tacosen [one definite plural form] var god [singular]" instead of "tacosen var goda [plural]" for multiple tacos. That might have affected that particular definite plural form, which is a bit unintuitive otherwise. Compare how "the leftover pizza" can refer to multiple pizzas.

• tacoskal (“taco shell”)

• taco in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)

Compare Italian tacco.

taco m (plural tachi)

1. heel