"taco" meaning in English

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Noun

IPA: /ˈtɑkoʊ/ [US], [ˈtʰɑkoʊ] [US], /ˈteɪkoʊ/ (note: US, historically), [ˈtʰeɪkoʊ] (note: US, historically), /ˈtækəʊ/ [UK], /ˈteɪkəʊ/ (note: UK, historically), /ˈtɐːkəʊ/ [General-Australian, New-Zealand], /ˈtæɪkəʊ/ (note: General Australian, New Zealand, historically), [ˈtʰä(ː)ko(ː)] [Canada], [ˈtʰako(ː)] [Canada] Audio: En-ca-taco.oga [Canada] Forms: tacos [plural]
enPR: tä′kō, tă′kō, täʹkō Rhymes: -ækəʊ, -ɑːkəʊ Etymology: Borrowed from Spanish taco (“light lunch”, literally “stopper, plug, wad”). Etymology templates: {{bor|en|es|taco|lit=stopper, plug, wad|t=light lunch}} Spanish taco (“light lunch”, literally “stopper, plug, wad”) Head templates: {{en-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. Categories (topical): Cooking Translations (Mexican snack food): تاكو (tākū) [masculine] (Arabic), 玉米麵豆卷 (Chinese Mandarin), 玉米面豆卷 (yùmǐmiàn dòujuǎn) (Chinese Mandarin), 墨西哥夾餅 (Chinese Mandarin), 墨西哥夹饼 (mòxīgē jiābǐng) (Chinese Mandarin), taco [masculine] (Dutch), tako (Esperanto), taco (Finnish), taco [masculine] (French), Taco [masculine] (German), タコス (takosu) (Japanese), タコ (tako) (Japanese), 타코 (tako) (Korean), tāko (Maori), tacos [neuter] (Polish), та́ко (táko) [masculine] (Russian), taco [masculine] (Spanish), taco [common-gender] (Swedish), tacos (Swedish), טאַקאָ (tako) [masculine] (Yiddish)
    Sense id: en-taco-en-noun-sg6suHHx Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 40 11 18 32 Topics: cooking, food, lifestyle Disambiguation of 'Mexican snack food': 96 2 2
  2. (US, slang) The vulva. Tags: US, slang Synonyms: pink taco
    Sense id: en-taco-en-noun-SrkWdNoq Categories (other): American English
  3. (US, slang) A yellow stain on a shirt armpit caused by sweat or deodorant. Tags: US, slang
    Sense id: en-taco-en-noun-~GOFeDp8 Categories (other): American English
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated

Verb

IPA: /ˈtɑkoʊ/ [US], [ˈtʰɑkoʊ] [US], /ˈteɪkoʊ/ (note: US, historically), [ˈtʰeɪkoʊ] (note: US, historically), /ˈtækəʊ/ [UK], /ˈteɪkəʊ/ (note: UK, historically), /ˈtɐːkəʊ/ [General-Australian, New-Zealand], /ˈtæɪkəʊ/ (note: General Australian, New Zealand, historically), [ˈtʰä(ː)ko(ː)] [Canada], [ˈtʰako(ː)] [Canada] Audio: En-ca-taco.oga [Canada] Forms: tacos [present, singular, third-person], tacoing [participle, present], tacoed [participle, past], tacoed [past]
enPR: tä′kō, tă′kō, täʹkō Rhymes: -ækəʊ, -ɑːkəʊ Etymology: Borrowed from Spanish taco (“light lunch”, literally “stopper, plug, wad”). Etymology templates: {{bor|en|es|taco|lit=stopper, plug, wad|t=light lunch}} Spanish taco (“light lunch”, literally “stopper, plug, wad”) Head templates: {{en-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. Tags: slang
    Sense id: en-taco-en-verb-a1nUn6lu

Inflected forms

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      ],
      "glosses": [
        "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."
      ],
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          "cooking",
          "cooking#Noun"
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          "Mexican"
        ],
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        ],
        [
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          "food"
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        ]
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        "(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."
      ],
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        "cooking",
        "food",
        "lifestyle"
      ]
    },
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      "categories": [
        "American English",
        "English slang",
        "English terms with quotations",
        "Quotation templates to be cleaned"
      ],
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        {
          "ref": "2007, Various, Sex & Seduction: 20 Erotic Stories, Accent Press Ltd, page 130",
          "text": "[…] while grinding her pink taco into my groin as if trying to gain even more of my sizable ...",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2009, Albert Mudrian, Precious Metal: Decibel Presents the Stories Behind 25 Extreme Metal Masterpieces, Da Capo Press, page 159",
          "text": "[…] zombies have to eat and the best place to on any female is the pink taco.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2015, Cynthia Dane, A Fragile Wife: A Billionaire Romance, Barachou Press",
          "text": "[…] 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.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "The vulva."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "vulva",
          "vulva"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(US, slang) The vulva."
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "word": "pink taco"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "US",
        "slang"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "American English",
        "English slang"
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A yellow stain on a shirt armpit caused by sweat or deodorant."
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(US, slang) A yellow stain on a shirt armpit caused by sweat or deodorant."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "US",
        "slang"
      ]
    }
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      "ipa": "/ˈtɑkoʊ/",
      "tags": [
        "US"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "[ˈtʰɑkoʊ]",
      "tags": [
        "US"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈteɪkoʊ/",
      "note": "US, historically"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "[ˈtʰeɪkoʊ]",
      "note": "US, historically"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈtækəʊ/",
      "tags": [
        "UK"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈteɪkəʊ/",
      "note": "UK, historically"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈtɐːkəʊ/",
      "tags": [
        "General-Australian",
        "New-Zealand"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈtæɪkəʊ/",
      "note": "General Australian, New Zealand, historically"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "[ˈtʰä(ː)ko(ː)]",
      "tags": [
        "Canada"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "[ˈtʰako(ː)]",
      "tags": [
        "Canada"
      ]
    },
    {
      "rhymes": "-ækəʊ"
    },
    {
      "rhymes": "-ɑːkəʊ"
    },
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      "enpr": "tä′kō"
    },
    {
      "enpr": "tă′kō"
    },
    {
      "enpr": "täʹkō"
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      "code": "ar",
      "lang": "Arabic",
      "roman": "tākū",
      "sense": "Mexican snack food",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "تاكو"
    },
    {
      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "sense": "Mexican snack food",
      "word": "玉米麵豆卷"
    },
    {
      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "roman": "yùmǐmiàn dòujuǎn",
      "sense": "Mexican snack food",
      "word": "玉米面豆卷"
    },
    {
      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "sense": "Mexican snack food",
      "word": "墨西哥夾餅"
    },
    {
      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "roman": "mòxīgē jiābǐng",
      "sense": "Mexican snack food",
      "word": "墨西哥夹饼"
    },
    {
      "code": "nl",
      "lang": "Dutch",
      "sense": "Mexican snack food",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "taco"
    },
    {
      "code": "eo",
      "lang": "Esperanto",
      "sense": "Mexican snack food",
      "word": "tako"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "Mexican snack food",
      "word": "taco"
    },
    {
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "Mexican snack food",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "taco"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "Mexican snack food",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "Taco"
    },
    {
      "code": "ja",
      "lang": "Japanese",
      "roman": "takosu",
      "sense": "Mexican snack food",
      "word": "タコス"
    },
    {
      "code": "ja",
      "lang": "Japanese",
      "roman": "tako",
      "sense": "Mexican snack food",
      "word": "タコ"
    },
    {
      "code": "ko",
      "lang": "Korean",
      "roman": "tako",
      "sense": "Mexican snack food",
      "word": "타코"
    },
    {
      "code": "mi",
      "lang": "Maori",
      "sense": "Mexican snack food",
      "word": "tāko"
    },
    {
      "code": "pl",
      "lang": "Polish",
      "sense": "Mexican snack food",
      "tags": [
        "neuter"
      ],
      "word": "tacos"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "táko",
      "sense": "Mexican snack food",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "та́ко"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "Mexican snack food",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "taco"
    },
    {
      "code": "sv",
      "lang": "Swedish",
      "sense": "Mexican snack food",
      "tags": [
        "common-gender"
      ],
      "word": "taco"
    },
    {
      "code": "sv",
      "lang": "Swedish",
      "sense": "Mexican snack food",
      "word": "tacos"
    },
    {
      "code": "yi",
      "lang": "Yiddish",
      "roman": "tako",
      "sense": "Mexican snack food",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "טאַקאָ"
    }
  ],
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}

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    "English 3-syllable words",
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    "English terms with audio links",
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    "Rhymes:English/ækəʊ/2 syllables",
    "Rhymes:English/ɑːkəʊ",
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        "t": "light lunch"
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      "name": "bor"
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        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
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      "tags": [
        "past"
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    "ta‧co"
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        {
          "ref": "1996, Arizona Highways - Volume 72, page 9",
          "text": "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.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2003, Bob Roll, Bobke II, page 91",
          "text": "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.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2008, Sally Stenhouse Kneidel, Going Green: A Wise Consumer's Guide to a Shrinking Planet",
          "text": "I'd left it in neutral and it rolled straight back into the barn and tacoed that door.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2016, Jennifer Moore, Safe Harbor",
          "text": "He turned off the light and laid on the couch, tacoing the pillow behind his head and inhaling the smell of Melanie Owen.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
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        "To fold or cause to buckle in half, similar to the way a taco is folded."
      ],
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        [
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        ],
        [
          "buckle",
          "buckle"
        ],
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          "in half",
          "in half"
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      ],
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        "(slang) To fold or cause to buckle in half, similar to the way a taco is folded."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "slang"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈtɑkoʊ/",
      "tags": [
        "US"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "[ˈtʰɑkoʊ]",
      "tags": [
        "US"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈteɪkoʊ/",
      "note": "US, historically"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "[ˈtʰeɪkoʊ]",
      "note": "US, historically"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈtækəʊ/",
      "tags": [
        "UK"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈteɪkəʊ/",
      "note": "UK, historically"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈtɐːkəʊ/",
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        "General-Australian",
        "New-Zealand"
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    {
      "ipa": "/ˈtæɪkəʊ/",
      "note": "General Australian, New Zealand, historically"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "[ˈtʰä(ː)ko(ː)]",
      "tags": [
        "Canada"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "[ˈtʰako(ː)]",
      "tags": [
        "Canada"
      ]
    },
    {
      "rhymes": "-ækəʊ"
    },
    {
      "rhymes": "-ɑːkəʊ"
    },
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      "ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/1b/En-ca-taco.oga",
      "tags": [
        "Canada"
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    {
      "enpr": "tä′kō"
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    {
      "enpr": "tă′kō"
    },
    {
      "enpr": "täʹkō"
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}

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