taco
English edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from Spanish taco (“light lunch”, literally “stopper, plug, wad”).
Pronunciation edit
- (US) enPR: tä′kō, IPA(key): /ˈtɑkoʊ/, [ˈtʰɑkoʊ]
- (UK) enPR: tă′kō, IPA(key): /ˈtækəʊ/
- (General Australian, New Zealand) enPR: täʹkō, IPA(key): /ˈtɐːkəʊ/
- (General Australian, New Zealand, historically) IPA(key): /ˈtæɪkəʊ/
- (Canada) IPA(key): [ˈtʰä(ː)ko(ː)], [ˈtʰako(ː)]
Audio (Canada) (file) - Rhymes: -ækəʊ, -ɑːkəʊ
- Hyphenation: ta‧co
Noun edit
taco (plural tacos)
- (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.
- (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 edit
Translations edit
Mexican snack food
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Verb edit
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.
Further reading edit
Anagrams edit
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Pronunciation edit
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taco
Finnish edit
Etymology edit
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
taco
Declension edit
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. |
Derived terms edit
compounds
Further reading edit
- “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 2023-07-03
Italian edit
Etymology edit
Unadapted borrowing from Spanish taco.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
taco m (plural tacos)
Further reading edit
- taco in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana
Pali edit
Alternative forms edit
Alternative forms
Noun edit
taco
- nominative singular of taca (“skin”)
Polish edit
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taco f
Portuguese edit
Pronunciation edit
- Rhymes: -aku
Etymology 1 edit
Unknown.
Noun edit
taco m (plural tacos)
- (sports) cue; bat; stick (any long implement used to hit the ball or puck in certain sports)
- (Brazil) bete-ombro
Derived terms edit
Etymology 2 edit
Noun edit
taco m (plural tacos)
- taco (a Mexican snack food)
Etymology 3 edit
See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
Verb edit
taco
Spanish edit
Pronunciation edit
Etymology 1 edit
Mexican Spanish, from Old French tache (“bolt, nail”).
Noun edit
taco m (plural tacos)
- (Mexico, cooking) 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) curse word, swear word
- (Spain, colloquial) a load, a lot
- Synonym: montón
- (Spain, colloquial, in the plural) years of age
Derived terms edit
Descendants edit
- → English: taco
See also edit
Etymology 2 edit
See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
Verb edit
taco
Further reading edit
- taco on the Spanish Wikipedia.Wikipedia es
- “taco”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014
Anagrams edit
Swedish edit
Noun edit
taco c
Usage notes edit
The plural "tacos" refers to the dish, like in English.
Declension edit
Declension of taco | ||||
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Singular | Plural | |||
Indefinite | Definite | Indefinite | Definite | |
Nominative | taco | tacon | tacos | tacosarna |
Genitive | tacos | tacons | tacos | tacosarnas |
Derived terms edit
- tacoskal (“taco shell”)
References edit
Venetian edit
Etymology edit
Noun edit
taco m (plural tachi)