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taco

English

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

  • (US) enPR: tä?k?, IPA(key): /?t?ko?/, [?t??ko?]
  • (UK) enPR: t??k?, IPA(key): /?tæk??/
  • (General Australian, General New Zealand) enPR: tä?k?, IPA(key): /?t??k??/
  • Rhymes: -æk??, -??k??

Noun

taco (plural tacos)

  1. (cooking) 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.
    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

  • naco
  • pink taco
  • street taco
  • taco fest

Translations

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.

Further reading

  • taco on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

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

Catalan

Pronunciation

  • (Balearic, Valencian) IPA(key): /?ta.ko/
  • (Central) IPA(key): /?ta.ku/

Verb

taco

  1. first-person singular present indicative form of tacar

Finnish

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /?t?ko/, [?t??ko?]
  • Syllabification: ta?co

Noun

taco

  1. taco

Declension


Pali

Alternative forms

Noun

taco

  1. nominative singular of taca (skin)

Polish

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /?ta.t?s?/

Noun

taco f

  1. vocative singular of taca

Portuguese

Pronunciation

  • (Portugal, Brazil) IPA(key): /?ta.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. Bete-ombro
Derived terms

Etymology 2

Borrowed from Spanish taco.

Noun

taco m (plural tacos)

  1. taco (a Mexican snack food)

Etymology 3

See the etymology of the main entry.

Verb

taco

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

Spanish

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /?tako/, [?t?a.ko]

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
  9. (Spain, colloquial) a load, a lot
    Synonym: montón
  10. (Spain, colloquial, in the plural) years of age
    Synonyms: año, primavera
Derived terms
See also
  • billar
Descendants
  • ? English: taco

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the main entry.

Verb

taco

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

Venetian

Etymology

Compare Italian tacco.

Noun

taco m (plural tachi)

  1. heel

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toco

English

Etymology 1

Shortening.

Noun

toco (plural tocos)

  1. Clipping of tocodynamometer.

Etymology 2

From Hindi ???? (?hoko), second-person plural imperative form of ????? (?hokn?, to strike, hit, beat), from Sauraseni Prakrit *???????????????????????????? (*?hokkadi), from Ashokan Prakrit *???????????????????? (*?hokati).

Alternative forms

  • toko

Pronunciation

  • (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /?t??.k??/
  • (US) enPR: t??k?, IPA(key): /?to?.ko?/
  • Rhymes: -??k??

Noun

toco (uncountable)

  1. (obsolete, British slang) Corporal punishment; chastisement; beatings.
Derived terms

Etymology 3

From Tupian.

Noun

toco (plural tocos)

  1. a toco toucan
    • 2007, Les Beletsky, Bird Songs from Around the World, Chronicle Books (?ISBN), page 90:
      The Toco Toucan is surely among the most striking of the toucans, with its black-and-white body and enormous yellow-orange bill. [...] Tocos make loud rattling or clacking sounds with their bills.
    • 2014, R. Eric Miller, Murray E. Fowler, Fowler's Zoo and Wild Animal Medicine, Volume 8 - E-Book, Elsevier Health Sciences (?ISBN), page 234:
      Diabetes mellitus has been reported in tocos (R. toco) and keel-billed toucans.

Anagrams

  • Coto, coot, octo-

Asturian

Verb

toco

  1. first-person singular present indicative of tocar

Catalan

Pronunciation

  • (Balearic, Valencian) IPA(key): /?to.ko/
  • (Central) IPA(key): /?to.ku/

Verb

toco

  1. first-person singular present indicative form of tocar

Galician

Etymology 1

From a substrate pre-Latin language, from Proto-Indo-European *tewh?- (to swell).

Akin to Spanish tocón (stump).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /?toko?/, (northwestern) /?t?ko?/

Adjective

toco m (feminine singular toca, masculine plural tocos, feminine plural tocas)

  1. maimed; one-handed; one-armed

Noun

toco m (plural tocos)

  1. burrow, den
    Synonyms: tobo, pala
  2. stump
    Synonyms: cepa, coto, cozo

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the main entry.

Verb

toco

  1. first-person singular present indicative of tocar

References

  • “toco” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006-2013.
  • “toco” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
  • “toco” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.

Portuguese

Noun

toco m (plural tocos)

  1. stub, stump (something cut short, blunted, or stunted)

Verb

toco

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

Spanish

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /?toko/, [?t?o.ko]

Verb

toco

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

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