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crispito

crispito noun: a food consisting of a crispy fried or baked tortilla rolled tightly around a filling (typically a savory filling such as meat, corn, and/or cheese, but sometimes a dessert filling), similar to a taquito.

Noun

crispito (plural crispitos)

  1. A food consisting of a crispy fried or baked tortilla rolled tightly around a filling (typically a savory filling such as meat, corn, and/or cheese, but sometimes a dessert filling), similar to a taquito.
    • Crispitos. Also known as buñuelos in many Mexican restaurants, these are favorites around my house. All you need are some flour tortillas, a little cinnamon, and some sugar to make this dessert.2010 May 11, Stephanie Manley, CopyKat.com's Dining Out At Home Cookbook: Recipes for the Most Delicious Dishes from America's Most Popular Restaurants, Simon and Schuster, →ISBN
    • Particular favorites include grilled cheese, chicken crispitos, chicken patties on Saturdays, and name-yourown omelets on Tuesdays and Thursdays. The new waffle makers are also a breakfast hit. There is a clambake every fall[…]2011 03, Jessie Sawyer, Sarah Connell, Bates College 2012, College Prowler, →ISBN

Examples of crispito in a sentence

  • Or maybe the delicious (but probably toxic) fumes from the crispitos had overloaded my brain.2016 04, Noa Gavin, Nick Scott, Practical Applications for Multiverse Theory: A Novel, Inkshares, →ISBN:
  • CRISPITOS Should you have the great fortune to even find a Crispito, it will likely have aged for a few hours under a heat lamp.2017 October 3, T. Edward Nickens, Will Brantley, The Total Redneck Manual: 221 Ways to Live Large, Weldon Owen International, →ISBN:

Forms of crispito

pluralcrispitos

Questions about crispito

What does crispito mean?
Crispito means a food consisting of a crispy fried or baked tortilla rolled tightly around a filling (typically a savory filling such as meat, corn, and/or cheese, but sometimes a dessert filling), similar to a taquito.
How do you use crispito in a sentence?
Or maybe the delicious (but probably toxic) fumes from the crispitos had overloaded my brain.
What part of speech is crispito?
Crispito is a noun.
What is the plural of crispito?
The plural of crispito is crispitos.

Words near crispito in the dictionary

  1. crisping irons
  2. crisping pin
  3. crisping pins
  4. crispings
  5. Crispins
  6. crispito
  7. crispitos
  8. crispless
  9. crisplike
  10. crisply
  11. crispness

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