tacoed

1. 1
   adjective

   Bent sharply in half; buckled out of its proper flat shape.

   Like a stiff disc crumpled into the shape of a folded taco shell.

   The collision left the rear wheel tacoed beyond repair.

   A tacoed rim wobbles badly and rubs against the brake pads.

   Similarbent, warped

   Oppositetrue, straight

   Note

   Riders' slang that takes its picture from a folded taco shell. What gets tacoed is almost always a bicycle wheel, a rim forced sideways until it no longer sits flat. Unlike many participles, it takes degrees: a wheel can be more tacoed, completely tacoed, or so tacoed it won't even spin. It belongs to crash talk, as in walking out of the park with a tacoed wheel.

2. 2
   verbslang

   Past tense and past participle of taco.

   The rider tacoed his wheel after misjudging the jump.

   Both wheels tacoed when the cart tumbled down the embankment.

   Note

   The verb behind this form is slang, and it runs both ways: a rider can taco a wheel, or the wheel can simply taco on its own. The past form keeps that double life, so you can say he tacoed his wheel or both wheels tacoed. The same spelling also serves as the "bent in half" adjective, which describes the damage once the action is over.

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