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taco rice

taco rice noun: a yoshoku dish from Okinawa, mainly consisting of ground beef on a bed of rice.

Noun

taco rice (uncountable)

  1. A yoshoku dish from Okinawa, mainly consisting of ground beef on a bed of rice.

Origin of taco rice

Phono-semantic matching from Japanese タコライス (takoraisu), itself a wasei eigo (和製英語; pseudo-anglicism) derived from taco + rice.

Questions about taco rice

What does taco rice mean?
Taco rice means a yoshoku dish from Okinawa, mainly consisting of ground beef on a bed of rice.
What part of speech is taco rice?
Taco rice is a noun.

Words near taco rice in the dictionary

  1. taco fests
  2. Taco Hell
  3. taco nigger
  4. taco niggers
  5. TACO out
  6. taco rice
  7. taco salad
  8. taco salads
  9. Taco Smell
  10. taco terrier
  11. TACO trade

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