Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A thick fritter of fried dough that is often dipped in chocolate just before it is eaten.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The coarse-wooled Mexican sheep, used extensively in crossing with the merino, in Texas, northern Mexico, California, etc.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A
fried pastry , typicallyeaten as adessert and with chocolate beverage.
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
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Examples
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Further, the churro's creator must be touched by the hand of God himself, for to partake of the delights of a churro is to know heaven on earth.
Don Churrero 2006
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Further, the churro's creator must be touched by the hand of God himself, for to partake of the delights of a churro is to know heaven on earth.
Don Churrero 2006
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A churro is a fried-dough pastry, sometimes called the Spanish doughnut.
National Business News - Local Business News | bizjournals 2010
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He probably calls you, ihatelapels, "churro" because you're sweet.
a nickname 2002
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The breed originated in the arid south of Spain (where it is called the "churro"), and it thrives in the hot, dry climate.
1 Microcattle 1991
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I miss the churro carts that used to fry and sugar them fresh.
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I'm three inches shorter and weigh two ounces less than a goddamn churro.
Mark Steinberg: Woodward Scores Romney Exclusive Mark Steinberg 2011
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I'm three inches shorter and weigh two ounces less than a goddamn churro.
Mark Steinberg: Woodward Scores Romney Exclusive Mark Steinberg 2011
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You're young, bursting with an innocent puppy energy -- like a light layer of powdered sugar dusting some cheap Mexican churro: you're delicious, warm and kind of flakey but the real pleasure is in the final release.
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We took our kids to Disney this summer, and I was chatting up a young man who sold me a churro.
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