taco

English

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

  • (US) enPR: tä′kō, IPA(key): /ˈtɑkoʊ/, [ˈtʰɑkoʊ]
  • (UK) enPR: tă′kō, IPA(key): /ˈtækəʊ/
  • (General Australian, General New Zealand) enPR: täʹkō, IPA(key): /ˈtɐːkəʊ/
  • Rhymes: -ækəʊ, -ɑːkəʊ
  • Audio (Canada)(file)

Noun

taco (plural tacos)

  1. A Mexican snack food; a small tortilla (soft or hard shelled), with typically some type of meat, rice, beans, cheese, diced vegetables (usually tomatoes and lettuce, as served in the United States, and cilantro, onion, and avocado, as served in México) and salsa.
  2. (US, slang) The vulva. also called 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.
  3. (US, slang) A yellow stain on a shirt armpit caused by sweat or deodorant.

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Catalan

Verb

taco

  1. first-person singular present indicative form of tacar

Portuguese

Pronunciation

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)
Derived terms

Verb

taco

  1. first-person singular (eu) present indicative of tacar

Etymology 2

Borrowed from Spanish taco.

Noun

taco m (plural tacos)

  1. taco (a Mexican snack food)

Spanish

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈtako/, [ˈt̪ako]

Etymology 1

Mexican Spanish, from Old French tache (“bolt, nail”), from Middle Low German zacke (“sharp point”).

Noun

taco m (plural tacos)

  1. peg (a short, thick piece of wood, metal, or other material)
  2. dowel (a longer piece of wood, plastic, or other material)
  3. stopper, plug, wad (small bundle of material made to cover, stop, or fill a hole)
  4. (sports) cue (a stick used to play billiards, snooker, pool, etc)
  5. (Mexico, food) taco
  6. (Chile) traffic jam
  7. (Spain) a curse word, a swear word, a profanity, a slur
  8. (Spain, colloquial) a load, a lot
Derived terms
See also

Etymology 2

See etymology on the main entry.

Verb

taco

  1. First-person singular (yo) present indicative form of tacar.

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Venetian

Etymology

Compare Italian tacco

Noun

taco m (plural tachi)

  1. heel
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