taco
English
editEtymology
editBorrowed from Mexican 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
edittaco (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's armpit caused by sweat or deodorant.
Derived terms
editTranslations
editMexican snack food
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Verb
edittaco (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
editAnagrams
editCatalan
editPronunciation
editVerb
edittaco
Finnish
editEtymology
editPronunciation
editNoun
edittaco
Declension
editInflection 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
editcompounds
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
editEtymology
editUnadapted borrowing from Spanish taco.
Pronunciation
editNoun
edittaco m (plural tacos)
Further reading
edit- taco in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana
Pali
editAlternative forms
editAlternative scripts
Noun
edittaco
- nominative singular of taca (“skin”)
Polish
editPronunciation
editNoun
edittaco f
Portuguese
editPronunciation
edit
- Rhymes: -aku
Etymology 1
editUnknown.
Noun
edittaco 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
editEtymology 2
editNoun
edittaco m (plural tacos)
- taco (a Mexican snack food)
Etymology 3
editSee the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
Verb
edittaco
Spanish
editPronunciation
editEtymology 1
editUncertain, probably borrowed from Italian tacco.
Noun
edittaco 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
- (Mexico, colloquial) small, pointed projections on the bottom of football boots which provide traction and stability on various surfaces.
- Synonym: tachones
- Tacos arriba, muchachos. ― Studs up, lads!
Derived terms
editDescendants
edit- → English: taco
See also
editEtymology 2
editSee the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
Verb
edittaco
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
editSwedish
editNoun
edittaco c
Usage notes
edit- 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.
Declension
editDeclension of taco | ||||
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Singular | Plural | |||
Indefinite | Definite | Indefinite | Definite | |
Nominative | taco | tacon | tacos | tacosen, tacosarna |
Genitive | tacos | tacons | tacos | tacosens, tacosarnas |
Derived terms
edit- tacoskal (“taco shell”)
References
editVenetian
editEtymology
editNoun
edittaco m (plural tachi)
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