chile con queso
chile con queso noun: a creamy sauce used as a dip, made from melted cheese and chili peppers.
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Noun
chile con queso (uncountable)
- A creamy sauce used as a dip, made from melted cheese and chili peppers.
- Big Tony, who had been quietly puffing on his cigarillo at the door—no intruders here!—takes delivery of an impressive three-foot-high spray of flowers and very carefully walks over and deposits it square in the middle of a steam table, right in the rickety middle of hissing bowls of chile con...1984, Chet Flippo, David Bowie’s Serious Moonlight: The World Tour, Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday & Company, Inc., →ISBN, page 148
- Bursting the bubble of a perfectly puffed tortilla smothered in chile con queso is the moment where anticipation meets realization in the Tex-Mex experience.2003, David Baird, Edie Jarolim, Don Laine, Barb Laine, Eric Peterson, Neil E. Schlecht, Texas (Frommer’s), 2nd edition, New York, N.Y.: Wiley Publishing, Inc., →ISBN, page 12
- Synonyms:
- queso
Synonyms of chile con queso
Forms of chile con queso
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Origin of chile con queso
From Spanish chile con queso (“chili with cheese”).
Questions about chile con queso
- What does chile con queso mean?
- Chile con queso means a creamy sauce used as a dip, made from melted cheese and chili peppers.
- What part of speech is chile con queso?
- Chile con queso is a noun.
Words near chile con queso in the dictionary
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