taco

[ tah-koh; Spanish tah-kaw ]

noun,plural ta·cos [tah-kohz; Spanish tah-kaws]. /ˈtɑ koʊz; Spanish ˈtɑ kɔs/.
  1. Mexican Cooking. a tortilla filled with various ingredients, as beans, rice, chopped meat, cheese, and tomatoes, and folded over in half or rolled into a loose cylinder shape: My favorite breakfast taco has eggs, bacon, and cheese on a flour tortilla.The downside of hard-shell tacos is that you can’t fit as much stuff in a fried tortilla.

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Origin of taco

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First recorded in 1930–35; from Mexican Spanish; perhaps a shortening of taco de minero “miner’s plug,” from the resemblance of the food to an explosive charge used in silver mines, from Spanish taco “wad, plug, wedge”; further origin uncertain

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taco

/ (ˈtɑːkəʊ) /


nounplural -cos
  1. Mexican cookery a tortilla folded into a roll with a filling and usually fried

Origin of taco

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from Mexican Spanish, from Spanish: literally, a snack, a bite to eat

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