taco

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  1. noun A corn tortilla folded around a filling such as ground meat or cheese.

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  • “Special holiday praline taco, anyone?” he asked between munches. —  Strange Horizons, Dec '01
  • Pet moved meditatively back to her taco, applied a little more of one of three salsas the waiter had provided, and studied me for a while. —  FAULT LINE
  • My absolute favorite bad review came from a reader who said that money spent on my comic was money better spent on a taco -- a —  Warren Ellis
  • Second best is a meaty birria taco, also piled high with ...
  • A good tongue taco -- hell, any tongue taco -- can be hard to find. —  Tucson Weekly
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  1. American Spanish, from Spanish, plug, wad of bank notes.
 

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