taco

taco

See also: TACO

English

a taco

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, New Zealand) enPR: täʹkō, IPA^(key): /ˈtɐːkəʊ/
• Rhymes: -ækəʊ, -ɑːkəʊ

• Audio (Canada)

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Noun

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 armpit caused by sweat or deodorant.

Derived terms

• pink taco
• street taco
• taco fest

Translations

Mexican snack food

Chinese: Mandarin: 玉米麵豆卷／玉米面豆卷 (yùmǐmiàn dòujuǎn), 墨西哥夾餅／墨西哥夹饼 (mòxīgē jiābǐng) Dutch: taco (nl) m Esperanto: tako Finnish: taco (fi) French: taco (fr) m German: Taco (de) m Japanese: タコス (takosu), タコ (ja) (tako) Korean: 타코 (tako) Polish: tacos (pl) m Russian: та́ко (ru) m (táko) Spanish: taco (es) m Swedish: taco c, tacos (sv)

Verb

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.

Further reading

• taco on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

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

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Catalan

Pronunciation

• (Balearic, Valencian) IPA^(key): /ˈta.ko/
• (Central) IPA^(key): /ˈta.ku/

Verb

taco

1. first-person singular present indicative form of tacar

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Finnish

Etymology

From Spanish taco.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈtɑko/, [ˈt̪ɑko̞]
• Syllabification^(key): ta‧co

Noun

taco

1. taco

Declension

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

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Italian

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from Spanish taco, from Old French tache (“bolt, nail”), from Middle Low German Zacke (“sharp point”).

Pronunciation

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

Noun

taco m (plural tacos)

1. (cooking) taco (Mexican snack food)

Further reading

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

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Pali

Alternative forms

Alternative forms

• 𑀢𑀘𑁄 (Brahmi script)
• तचो (Devanagari script)
• তচো (Bengali script)
• තචො (Sinhalese script)
• တစော or တၸေႃ (Burmese script)
• ตโจ or ตะโจ (Thai script)
• ᨲᨧᩮᩣ (Tai Tham script)
• ຕໂຈ or ຕະໂຈ (Lao script)
• តចោ (Khmer script)
• 𑄖𑄌𑄮 (Chakma script)

Noun

taco

1. nominative singular of taca (“skin”)

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Polish

Pronunciation

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

Noun

taco f

1. vocative singular of taca

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Portuguese

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈta.ku/

• Rhymes: -aku

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)
2. (Brazil) bete-ombro

Derived terms

• tacada
• tacar

 

Etymology 2

Borrowed from Spanish taco.

Noun

taco m (plural tacos)

1. taco (a Mexican snack food)

Etymology 3

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Verb

taco

1. first-person singular present indicative of tacar

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Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈtako/ [ˈt̪a.ko]
• Rhymes: -ako
• Syllabification: ta‧co

Etymology 1

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

Noun

taco m (plural tacos)

1. (Mexico, 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)
4. stopper, plug, wad (small bundle of material made to cover, stop, or fill a hole)
5. (Argentina, Bolivia, Chile, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, Paraguay, Peru, Uruguay) heel (of a shoe)
6. (sports) cue (a stick used to play billiards, snooker, pool, etc)
7. (Chile) traffic jam
8. (Spain) curse word, swear word

   Synonyms: juramento, palabrota, voto

   Empezó a soltar tacos. ― He started swearing.

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

   Synonym: montón

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

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

    Synonyms: año, primavera

Derived terms

• atacar
• taco chino
• taco de ojo
• tacón
• taquería
• taquito
• taquiza

 

Descendants

• → English: taco

See also

• billar

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Verb

taco

1. first-person singular present indicative of tacar

Further reading

• taco on the Spanish Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^es
• “taco”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014

Anagrams

• acto, cato, cota, toca

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Swedish

Noun

taco c

1. (cooking) a taco

   Vi borde äta tacos ikväll

   We should have tacos tonight

Usage notes

The plural "tacos" refers to the dish, like in English.

Declension

Declension of taco
	Singular		Plural
	Indefinite	Definite	Indefinite	Definite
Nominative	taco	tacon	tacos	tacosarna
Genitive	tacos	tacons	tacos	tacosarnas

References

• taco in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)

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Venetian

Etymology

Compare Italian tacco.

Noun

taco m (plural tachi)

1. heel