taco

Pluraltacos

Formstacos, tacoing, tacoed

1. 1
   Mexican foodnouncountable

   A Mexican snack made from a small soft or hard tortilla folded around fillings such as meat, rice, beans, cheese, vegetables, and salsa.

   He filled each taco with grilled chicken and fresh salsa.

   The street vendor piled grilled chicken and onions into soft corn tacos.

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   fold in halfverbslangtransitive or intransitive

   To fold something, or to buckle in half, similar to the way a taco shell folds.

   A hard sideways crash can taco a bicycle wheel beyond repair.

   The aluminum tray tacoed under the weight of the heavy casserole.

   UsageOften of a bike wheel: you taco a wheel, or the wheel tacoed.

   Similarbuckle, fold, bend

   Note

   A noun turned into a verb by its shape, and it works in both directions. Something can taco on its own (the boat tacoed), or force can taco it, as when Bob Roll's Bobke II (2003) has a rider taco a front wheel. Damage is the usual sense, for wheels, barn doors and boats, but it can be gentle, like folding a pillow behind your head. Source

   Checked 2 Nov 2026 · 3 facts

   • The verb derives from the food noun through resemblance to its folded shape. en.wiktionary.org
   • Bob Roll wrote Bobke II. en.wikipedia.org
   • Bobke II contains an example of a rider tacoing a front wheel. en.wiktionary.org
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   private partsnounslangvulgarUScountable

   A vulgar slang word for the vulva.

   Some guy at the bar yelled something about her taco, and she walked straight out.

   After her first bikini wax, she complained to her roommate that her taco stung for the rest of the day.

   Note

   It leans so openly on the food that it invites partner jokes: Cynthia Dane's A Fragile Wife (2015) sets it beside sausage. That familiarity also cuts the other way. Unless the sentence makes the body unmistakable, listeners simply hear lunch. Source

   Checked 2 Nov 2026 · 2 facts

   • Cynthia Dane wrote A Fragile Wife. en.wiktionary.org
   • The novel pairs the sexual use of taco with sausage. en.wiktionary.org

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