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taco

[tah-koh, tah-kaw]

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noun

plural

tacos

Mexican Cooking.��a tortilla filled with various ingredients, as beans, rice, chopped meat, cheese, and tomatoes, and folded over in half or rolled into a loose cylinder shape: The downside of hard-shell tacos is that you can’t fit as much stuff in a fried tortilla.
My favorite breakfast taco has eggs, bacon, and cheese on a flour tortilla.
The downside of hard-shell tacos is that you can’t fit as much stuff in a fried tortilla.

taco

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noun

Mexican cookery a tortilla folded into a roll with a filling and usually fried

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51�Թ� History and Origins

Origin of taco¹

First recorded in 1930–35; from Mexican Spanish; perhaps a shortening of taco de minero “miner’s plug,” from the resemblance of the food to an explosive charge used in silver mines, from Spanish taco “wad, plug, wedge”; further origin uncertain

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51�Թ� History and Origins

Origin of taco¹

from Mexican Spanish, from Spanish: literally, a snack, a bite to eat

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