taco
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- Words With Friends
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- Letters
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/ˈtɑkoʊ/(US)
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/ˈtɑkoʊ/(US) · [ˈtʰɑkoʊ](US) · /ˈtɐːkəʊ/ · /ˈtækəʊ/ · /ˈtakəw/ · /tako/ · [ˈtʰä(ː)ko(ː)] · [ˈtʰako(ː)] · /ʈæk.o/ · /t̪ɑko/ · /t̪æko/
Definition of taco
8 senses · 4 parts of speech · etymology included
noun
- 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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noun
- 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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(US, slang)The vulva.
“[…] while grinding her pink taco into my groin as if trying to gain even more of my sizable ...”
“[…] zombies have to eat and the best place to on any female is the pink taco.”
“"[…] 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.
- (abbreviation, alt-of, countable, initialism, uncountable)Initialism of transfusion-associated circulatory overload.
verb
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(ambitransitive, slang)To fold or cause to buckle in half, similar to the way a taco is folded.
“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.”
“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.”
“I'd left it in neutral and it rolled straight back into the barn and tacoed that door.”
“He turned off the light and laid on the couch, tacoing the pillow behind his head and inhaling the smell of Melanie Owen.”
phrase
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(alt-of)Alternative letter-case form of TACO; acronym of Trump always chickens out.
“This is the Taco theory: Trump Always Chickens Out. […] The key difference between this and the “Taco” theory is that the safe haven status of the US was never really in doubt; the world order was never on the cusp of a generational change.”
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(US, abbreviation, acronym, alt-of, neologism)Acronym of Trump always chickens out.
“This is the TACO theory: ["]Trump Always Chickens Out," Armstrong wrote on May 2.”
“The “TACO” trades, first coined by the Financial Times, are one of the ways Wall Street has managed to profit from the chaos of the Trump administration.”
“This time, Trump appeared to relish declaring that there would not be another TACO moment, writing on social media last night, “IT’S MIDNIGHT!!! BILLIONS OF DOLLARS IN TARIFFS ARE NOW FLOWING INTO THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA!””
“The TACO option — and a declaration of victory whether it’s genuine or not — does look attractive.”
name
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(US, derogatory, humorous, ironic, slang)Nickname for Donald Trump (born 1946), American businessman and politician, President of the United States (2017–2021; since 2025).
“Who Went To VIETNAM In TACO’S PLACE?”
“Last night, when Chip Cutter and Amrith Ramkumar reported that Señor TACO had publicly called for the resignation of Intel’s CEO— without evidence of wrongdoing—it marked another milestone in the authoritarian drift that has come to define his and his regime’s political DNA.”
Definitions from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA.
Etymology
Borrowed from Mexican Spanish taco, of uncertain origin; see the Spanish entry for more.
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