taco
See also: TACO
EnglishEdit
EtymologyEdit
Borrowed from Spanish taco (“light lunch”, literally “stopper, plug, wad”).
PronunciationEdit
- (US) enPR: tä′kō, IPA(key): /ˈtɑkoʊ/, [ˈtʰɑkoʊ]
- (UK) enPR: tă′kō, IPA(key): /ˈtækəʊ/
- (General Australian, New Zealand) enPR: täʹkō, IPA(key): /ˈtɐːkəʊ/
- Rhymes: -ækəʊ, -ɑːkəʊ
Audio (Canada) (file)
NounEdit
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 termsEdit
TranslationsEdit
Mexican snack food
VerbEdit
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 readingEdit
AnagramsEdit
CatalanEdit
PronunciationEdit
VerbEdit
taco
- first-person singular present indicative form of tacar
FinnishEdit
EtymologyEdit
PronunciationEdit
NounEdit
taco
DeclensionEdit
| Inflection of taco (Kotus type 1/valo, no gradation) | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| 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 | |
| instructive | — | tacoin | |
| abessive | tacotta | tacoitta | |
| comitative | — | tacoineen | |
| Possessive forms of taco (type valo) | ||
|---|---|---|
| possessor | singular | plural |
| 1st person | taconi | tacomme |
| 2nd person | tacosi | taconne |
| 3rd person | taconsa | |
ItalianEdit
EtymologyEdit
Unadapted borrowing from Spanish taco, from Old French tache (“bolt, nail”), from Middle Low German Zacke (“sharp point”).
PronunciationEdit
NounEdit
taco m (plural tacos)
Further readingEdit
- taco in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana
PaliEdit
Alternative formsEdit
Alternative forms
NounEdit
taco
- nominative singular of taca (“skin”)
PolishEdit
PronunciationEdit
NounEdit
taco f
PortugueseEdit
PronunciationEdit
- Rhymes: -aku
Etymology 1Edit
Unknown.
NounEdit
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 termsEdit
Etymology 2Edit
NounEdit
taco m (plural tacos)
- taco (a Mexican snack food)
Etymology 3Edit
See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
VerbEdit
taco
SpanishEdit
PronunciationEdit
Etymology 1Edit
Mexican Spanish, from Old French tache (“bolt, nail”), from Middle Low German Zacke (“sharp point”).
NounEdit
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 termsEdit
DescendantsEdit
- → English: taco
See alsoEdit
Etymology 2Edit
See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
VerbEdit
taco
Further readingEdit
taco on the Spanish Wikipedia.Wikipedia es- “taco”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014
AnagramsEdit
SwedishEdit
NounEdit
taco c
Usage notesEdit
The plural "tacos" refers to the dish, like in English.
DeclensionEdit
| Declension of taco | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Singular | Plural | |||
| Indefinite | Definite | Indefinite | Definite | |
| Nominative | taco | tacon | tacos | tacosarna |
| Genitive | tacos | tacons | tacos | tacosarnas |
ReferencesEdit
VenetianEdit
EtymologyEdit
NounEdit
taco m (plural tachi)