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TACO Tuesday

Syllables: Ta·co Tues·dayUK/ˌtækəʊ ˈtjuːzdeɪ//ˌtɑkoʊ ˈt(j)uzˌdeɪ/

TACO Tuesday noun: a Tuesday on which Donald Trump chickens out (in response to a poor Monday stock market opening in response to a policy announcement).

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Noun (1)

TACO Tuesday (plural TACO Tuesdays)

  1. (US, informal) A Tuesday on which Donald Trump chickens out (in response to a poor Monday stock market opening in response to a policy announcement).
    • It may be TACO Tuesday, but we aren’t sure President Donald Trump is eager to pass the queso.2025 June 3, Dan Merica, Matthew Choi, “TACO Tuesday — and why it bothers Trump”, in The Washington Post, archived from the original on 20 Jul 2025
    • "The market wants to see if today is TACO Tuesday," the bank's market intelligence team added.2026 January 20, Jennifer Sor, “Will the TACO trade save markets from Trump's Greenland threats? Here are 3 scenarios analysts are eyeing.”, in Business Insider, archived from the original on 02 Feb...

Noun (2) capitalized: Taco Tuesday

Taco Tuesday (plural Taco Tuesdays)

  1. (US) A Tuesday when Mexican food is served, especially tacos, chiefly in the evening and originally and especially in a restaurant as a promotion.
    • Coordinate term: Thirsty Thursday
    • TACO TUESDAY / Stop in on Taco Tuesday (tomorrow) / You'll get 3 Tacos for $1 plus a FREE COKE1973 August 20, “Taco Tuesday: Snow White Drive-in”, in Rapid City Journal, number 29107 (advertisement), Rapid City, S.D.: Rapid City Journal Co., →ISSN, →OCLC, page 9, column 1

Forms of TACO Tuesday

pluralTACO Tuesdays
pluralTaco Tuesdays

Origin of TACO Tuesday

From TACO (“Trump always chickens out”) + Tuesday, modeled after Taco Tuesday.

From taco + Tuesday, chosen for the alliteration. In the United States, the practice of restaurants encouraging the eating of tacos on Tuesdays as a marketing strategy is documented as early as the 1930s, though the term Taco Tuesday appears to date from the 1970s: see the 1973 quotation.

Questions about TACO Tuesday

What does TACO Tuesday mean?
TACO Tuesday means a Tuesday on which Donald Trump chickens out (in response to a poor Monday stock market opening in response to a policy announcement).
What part of speech is TACO Tuesday?
TACO Tuesday is a noun.
How do you pronounce TACO Tuesday?
TACO Tuesday is pronounced /ˌtækəʊ ˈtjuːzdeɪ/ (UK).
What is the plural of TACO Tuesday?
The plural of TACO Tuesday is TACO Tuesdays.

Words near TACO Tuesday in the dictionary

  1. taco salads
  2. Taco Smell
  3. taco terrier
  4. TACO trade
  5. TACO trades
  6. TACO Tuesday
  7. TACO Tuesdays
  8. taco vampiro
  9. taco-bender
  10. taco-benders
  11. tacoed

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Adapted from Wiktionary: TACO Tuesday (page history and authors); Taco Tuesday (page history and authors). 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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