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taco

Syllables: ta·coUS/ˈtɑkoʊ/

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Australia/ˈtɐːkəʊ/

taco 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.

taco: a Mexican snack food made of a small tortilla (soft- or hard-shelled) filled with ingredients such...
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Noun (1)

taco (plural tacos)

  1. 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.
  2. (US, slang) The vulva.
    • […] while grinding her pink taco into my groin as if trying to gain even more of my sizable ...2007, Various, Sex & Seduction: 20 Erotic Stories, Accent Press Ltd, page 130
    • […] zombies have to eat and the best place to on any female is the pink taco.2009, Albert Mudrian, Precious Metal: Decibel Presents the Stories Behind 25 Extreme Metal Masterpieces, Da Capo Press, page 159
    Synonyms:
    pink taco
  3. (US, slang) A yellow stain on a shirt's armpit caused by sweat or deodorant.

Verb

taco (third-person singular simple present tacos, present participle tacoing, simple past and past participle tacoed)

  1. (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.1996, Arizona Highways - Volume 72, page 9
    • 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.2003, Bob Roll, Bobke II, →ISBN, page 91

Noun (2) capitalized: TACO

TACO (countable and uncountable, plural TACOs)

  1. (abbreviation, initialism) Initialism of transfusion-associated circulatory overload.

Phrase (1) capitalized: TACO

TACO

  1. (US, abbreviation, acronym, neologism) Acronym of Trump always chickens out.
    • This is the TACO theory: ["]Trump Always Chickens Out," Armstrong wrote on May 2.2025 May 28, Aimee Picchi, “Trump was asked about the "TACO" trade and called it a "nasty question." Here's what it means.”, in CBS News, archived from the original on 01 Jun 2025
    • 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.2025 May 28, Ali Bianco, “Trump’s not happy about Wall Street’s name for tariff flip-flops”, in POLITICO, archived from the original on 01 Jun 2025

Proper noun capitalized: TACO

TACO

  1. (US, derogatory, humorous, ironic, slang) Nickname for Q22686 (born 1946), President of the United States (2017–2021; since 2025).
    • Who Went To VIETNAM In TACO’S PLACE?2025 June 18, “The tepid theatrics of Trump’s parade”, in The Washington Post (Sign held by demonstrator in photograph), archived from the original on 17 Jun 2025
    • 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.2025 August 8, Howie Klein, “Trump’s Authoritarianism Is A Symptom— Totalitarianism And Oligarchy Are The Disease”, in DownWithTyranny, archived from the original on 24 Dec 2025
    Synonyms:
    DJT, The Donald, Trump, Cheeto, Dementia Don, Diaper Don, Dirty Donald, Donald Duck, Donald Trumpet, Don Snoreleone

Phrase (2) capitalized: Taco

Taco

  1. 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.2025 May 2, Robert Armstrong, “The US market’s surprise comeback”, in Financial Times, archived from the original on 29 May 2025

taco meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Marathi and Urdu

taco in Hindi

Mexican snack food
टाको ṭāko

taco in Tamil

டாக்கோ, டாகோ, டகோ

taco in Marathi

टॅको, टाको

taco in Urdu

ٹیکو, ٹکو, ٹو ٹیکو
More languagesFewer languages
taco in Bengali
ট্যাকো, টাকো
taco in Telugu
టాకో, టకో, టాక్కో
taco in Malayalam
ടാക്കോ, ടാകോ, ടാക്കോയിലേക്ക്
taco in Kannada
ಟ್ಯಾಕೋ, ಟಾಕೋ, ಟಕೋ
taco in Punjabi
ਟੈਕੋ, ਟਾਕੋ
taco in Gujarati
ટાકો ṭāko
taco in Odia
ଟାକୋ
taco in Nepali
टाको, ट्याको
taco in Arabic
تاكو tākū
taco in Indonesian
taco, tako

Examples of taco in a sentence

  • Even if you think your husband is hiding his sausage in her taco, that was brazen.2015, Cynthia Dane, A Fragile Wife: A Billionaire Romance, Barachou Press:
  • I'd left it in neutral and it rolled straight back into the barn and tacoed that door.2008, Sally Stenhouse Kneidel, Going Green: A Wise Consumer's Guide to a Shrinking Planet:
  • He turned off the light and laid on the couch, tacoing the pillow behind his head and inhaling the smell of Melanie Owen.2016, Jennifer Moore, Safe Harbor, →ISBN:

All 40 example sentences with taco

Synonyms of taco

22 more synonymsFewer synonyms

Forms of taco

Noun
pluraltacos
pluralTACOs
Verb
third-person singular presenttacos
present participletacoing
past participletacoed
pasttacoed
Phrase
alternative formTaco

Plural of taco: tacos

Origin of taco

Borrowed from Mexican Spanish taco, of uncertain origin; see the Spanish entry for more.

Initialism.

Coined by journalist Robert Armstrong in 2025 for the Financial Times on May 2 in a newspaper column. Named after President of the United States Donald J. Trump

Words formed from taco

Phrases with taco

Questions about taco

What does taco mean?
Taco means 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.
What is taco in Hindi?
Taco in Hindi is टाको (ṭāko). See Taco meaning in Hindi.
How do you use taco in a sentence?
Even if you think your husband is hiding his sausage in her taco, that was brazen.
What part of speech is taco?
Taco can be a noun, a verb, a phrase or a proper noun.
How do you pronounce taco?
Taco is pronounced /ˈtɑkoʊ/ (US).
What is the plural of taco?
The plural of taco is tacos.

Words near taco in the dictionary

  1. Tacna
  2. tacnode
  3. tacnodes
  4. tacnuke
  5. tacnukes
  6. taco
  7. taco bender
  8. taco benders
  9. taco bumper
  10. taco bumpers
  11. taco dog

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: taco (page history and authors); TACO (page history and authors); Taco (page history and authors); taco (Tamil, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); taco (Marathi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); taco (Urdu, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); taco (Bengali, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); taco (Telugu, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); taco (Malayalam, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); taco (Kannada, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); taco (Punjabi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); taco (Odia, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); taco (Nepali, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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