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Taco

Definitions: Taco

Taco

Noun

1. Ethnic slur; offensive terms for a person of Mexican descent.

2. (Mexico) a tortilla rolled cupped around a filling.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

 

Abbreviations & Acronyms: Taco

The following table is compiled from various sources, across various languages. When English abbreviations or acronyms come from a non-English source, this is noted.

EntrySourceExpressionField

TACO

EnglishSub-Project Determination of integral cross sections and fission yields in fast reactorsNuclear Energy & Physics

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Specialty Definition: Taco

(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)

A taco is a traditional Mexican dish comprising a rolled or folded, pliable tortilla filled with meat (generally grilled beef or variety meats such as tongue and brains), chile sauce, guacamole and garnishes such as pico de gallo and cilantro. It may also contain just about any other dish that lends itself to it. Basically it must be chopped and fairly dry. There are many subvarieties, and most of them have a certain set of traditional fillings.

Americanized versions may use a deep-fried crispy tortilla shell, and include ingredients such as lettuce and cheese. The taco made with a crispy taco shell is probably descended not from the taco, but from the tostada, which it resembles more closely.

For the singer, see Taco Ockerse.

Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Taco."

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Synonyms: Taco

Synonyms: greaser (n), wetback (n). (additional references)

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Crosswords: Taco

English words defined with "taco": chicken tacotaco sauce. (references)
Specialty definitions using "taco": MEXICAN FOOD MAKER, HAND, MEXICAN-FOOD-MACHINE TENDERPink Taco. (references)
Non-English Usage: "Taco" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses.

Dutch (taco), Portuguese (club, dowel, golf course, Mace, peg, plug, stick), Spanish (block, brick, cue, nail, pad, rawlplug, stopper, swearword, tablet, taco, tampion, wad, wadding).

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Modern Usage: Taco

DomainUsage

Screenplays

Put his beef in your taco!! (Nutty Professor II: The Klumps; writing credit: Jerry Lewis; Steve Oedekerk)

Let's get a taco. (Reservoir Dogs; writing credit: Quentin Tarantino)

Thanks for coming to Krazy Taco, can I take your order? (Invader ZIM; writing credit: Carel Donck)

Y'know, I've met some dumb blondes in my life, but you take the taco, pal! Only a Carpathian would come back to life now and choose New York! (Ghostbusters II; writing credit: Dan Aykroyd; Harold Ramis)

No one can stand playing with you. You're bad, you get taco sauce all over the cards, and at this point you're down so much, you're paying people in turquoise jewelry. (Will & Grace; writing credit: Evan Weinstein)

Lyrics

The best thing would be for me to leave Taco Bell and hit up Chess King ("Murder Murder (Remix) *"; performing artist: Eminem)

Movie/TV Titles

Taco Bender (2003)

La Cultura del taco (1984)

Song Titles

Taco Wagon (performing artist: Young Fresh Fellows)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Commercial Usage: Taco

DomainTitle

References

  • Taco Cabana, Inc.: International Competitive Benchmarks and Financial Gap Analysis (reference)

    (more reference examples)

  

Books

  • Fantasy / Taco Posterbook (reference)

  • Posterbook, Henri De Toulouse-Lautrec, Taco (reference)

  • Real American Food: Jane and Michael Stern's Coast-To-Coast Cookbook: From Yankee Red Flannel Hash and the Ultimate Navajo Taco to Beautiful Swimme (reference)

  • Spanish in a Taco Shell (reference)

    (more book examples)

  

Theater & Movies

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Image Slideshow: Taco

Illustrations:
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Computer Images:
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Familiar Quotations: Taco

AuthorQuotation

Emo Philips

I went into Gus's artificial organ and taco stand. I said "Give me a bladder por favor."

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Non-Fiction Usage: Taco

SubjectTopicQuote

Business

Tricon will concentrate on the Taco Bell franchise once KFC is fully operational. (references)

Tricon owns Pizza Hut, Taco Bell and KFC. Tricon Belgium is headquartered in Antwerp. (references)

Once the KFC program is under way, Tricon will start looking for a partner to develop the Taco Bell franchise in Belgium. (references)

Economic History

Jamaica

These include Kentucky Fried Chicken (KFC), McDonalds, Pizza Hut, Subway, Dominos Pizza, Popeye's, Taco Bell and Wendy's to name several. (references)

Chile

Most franchises now in Chile focus on the fast-food sector, including McDonald's, Au Bon Pain, Domino's Pizza, Pizza Hut, Taco Bell, Kentucky Fried Chicken and Burger King. (references)

Dominican Rep

Pizza Hut, Wendy's, Domino's Pizza, McDonald's, Burger King, Friday's, Baskin-Robbins, Kentucky Fried Chicken, Church's Chicken, Taco Bell, Dunkin'Doughnuts, Mrs. Field's, TCBY, Dairy Queen and Subway are in operation and/or expanding. (references)

Travel

Jamaica

In addition, there are also many U.S. fast food outlets here, such as McDonald's, Burger King, Kentucky Fried Chicken, Kenny Roger's Roasters Chicken, Popeyes, Wendy's, Domino's Pizza, Pizza Hut, Taco Bell, and Subway. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

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Usage Frequency: Taco

"Taco" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 88.89% of the time. "Taco" is used about 27 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)
Parts of SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words
Rank in English
Noun (singular)88.89%2471,196
Noun (proper)11.11%3202,518
                    Total100.00%27N/A

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Usage in Company Names: Taco

CountryName
USA

Taco Cabana, Inc.

 (more examples...)

Source: compiled by the editor from Icon Group International, Inc.

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Expressions: Taco

Expressions using "taco": chicken taco taco sauce. Additional references.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Taco

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

taco bell

3,751

taco

585

bell menu taco

368

del taco

337

taco salad recipe

321

bueno taco

318

taco salad

280

bald taco

249

taco dip

231

joe taco

222
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translations: Taco

Language Translations for "taco"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Dutch

  

taco. (various references)

   

Farsi 

  

نان ساجی (Pancake), ساندویچ (Sandwich). (various references)

   

Greek 

  

τάκο. (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

mexikói töltött lepény. (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

acotay.(various references)

   

Russian 

  

тако. (various references)

   

Spanish

  

taco (block, brick, calkin, cue, nail, pad, rawlplug, shim, slab, sprag, stopper, swearword, tablet, tampion, wad, wadding). (various references)

   

Thai

  

ขนมปังของชาวเม็กซิกัน. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Derivations & Misspellings: Taco

Derivations

Words beginning with "taco": taconite, taconites, tacos. (additional references)

Words containing "taco": autacoid, autacoids, catacomb, catacombs, psittacoses, psittacosis, psittacotic. (additional references)


Misspellings

"Taco" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: acco, aco, Atca, atco, Atko, caco, dtac, faco, Iaco, nacco, Otocom, Qtac, taao, tabo, tacay, tacc, tacco, taci, tacid, tacif, tacin, tacip, tacog, tacon, tacow, Tacq, tactoo, tacu, tacy, tado, taeo, tafo, tago, taho, tahoo, taio, tajo, tak, taka, taki, tako, takor, taku, takum, talo, Tamo, tano, taoo, taox, tapo, tapoo, taqo, tasso, tavo, Tavoy, taxco, taxo, tayo, tazo, tce, tco, tcow, tcp, Teco, Tepco, tercom, teso, Texcoco, tica, tici, tico, tiko, Tkacz, Toco, tpca, tsac, Tsavo, ttgca, tufo, Tuzcu, tvc, tyco. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Rhyming with "Taco"

# of Phoneme MatchesPronunciationWord(s) rhyming with "taco" (pronounced tÄ"kō)
3-Ä" k ōmako, Morocco.

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

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Anagrams: Taco

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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: coat.

Words within the letters "a-c-o-t"

-1 letter: act, cat, cot, oat, oca, tao.

-2 letters: at, ta, to.

 Words containing the letters "a-c-o-t"
 

+1 letter: actor, ascot, canto, coact, coapt, coast, coati, coats, costa, cotan, cotta, octad, octal, octan, tacos, taroc.

 

+2 letters: accost, action, actors, aortic, ascots, atomic, atonic, atopic, avocet, azotic, bobcat, cahoot, cannot, canton, cantor, cantos, capote, captor, carrot, carton, cartop, castor, catalo, cation, cavort, chalot, citola, coacts, coapts, coasts, coated, coatee, coater, coatis, cobalt, coital, comate, combat, contra, costae, costal, costar, cotans, coteau, cottae, cottar, cottas, cowpat, craton, dacoit, factor, locate, mascot, octads, octane, octans, octant, octave, octavo, outact, oxcart, scotia, scrota, tarocs, toecap, tombac, tomcat, toucan, trocar, turaco.

 

+3 letters: abbotcy, abiotic, accosts, account, acetone, acetose, acetous, achiote, acolyte, aconite, acrobat, acrotic, actinon, actions, aloetic, aphotic, apomict, apricot, aprotic, argotic, atomics, atonics, auction, avocets, backout, bobcats, botanic, cactoid, cahoots, calotte, caltrop, cantdog, cantons, cantors, capitol, capotes, caption, captors, carotid, carotin, carport, carrots, carroty, cartons, cartoon, castoff, castors, catalog, catalos, catboat, cathode, cations, cattalo, caution, cavetto, cavorts, centavo, challot, chaloth, chantor, chaotic, chariot, chayote, cholate, citator, citolas, coacted, coactor, coadmit, coagent, coalpit, coapted, coastal, coasted, coaster, coatees, coaters, coating, cobalts, cocomat, coenact, cognate, cohabit, collate, comates, comatic, comatik, combats, comitia, commata, compact, compart, conatus, connate, contact, contain, contras, coolant, copycat, coranto, cordate, costard, costars, costate, coteaus, coteaux, cotidal, cottage, cottars, courant, couteau, cowpats, cratons, creator, curator, dacoits, dacoity, dogcart, ectopia, ectozoa, enactor, erotica, exactor, exotica, faction, factoid, factors, factory, haricot, hotcake, iceboat, isotach, jackpot, jaconet, lactone, lactose, located, locater, locates, locator, locusta, marcato, mascots, mattock, nonfact, oatcake, ocreate, octadic, octagon, octanes, octanol, octants, octaval, octaves, octavos, offcast, ootheca, opacity, optical, osmatic, ostraca, otalgic, outacts, outback, outcast, outface, outpace, outrace, overact, oxcarts, paction, parotic, peacoat, polecat, potamic, potlach, psoatic, reactor, redcoat, ricotta, sacaton, scotias, scotoma, scrotal, somatic, stoical, stomach, surcoat, tachyon, tacnode, taction, talcose, talcous, tapioca, tobacco, toccata, toccate, toecaps, tomback, tombacs, tomcats, topcoat, topical, toucans, touraco, toxical, tractor, trocars, trochal, trochar, turacos, turacou, upcoast, voltaic, zacaton.

 

+4 letters: abductor, accentor, acceptor, accosted, accounts, accouter, accoutre, accustom, acetones, acetonic, acetoxyl, achiotes, achromat, acidotic, acolytes, aconites, aconitic, aconitum, acoustic, acrobats, acrodont, acrolect, acrolith, acrostic, acrotism, actinoid, actinons, actorish, actuator, adductor, advocate, aeroduct, agnostic, allocate, amitotic, ammocete, amniotic, anatomic, ancestor, anchoret, anecdota, anecdote, anoretic, anorthic, anticold, antilock, antirock, aoristic, apomicts, apostacy, apothece, apricots, aromatic, atamasco, atomical, atrocity, atrophic, auctions, autacoid, autocade, autocoid, autocrat, autopsic, azotemic, backmost, backouts, backstop, biotical, blackout, blacktop, bluecoat, bootjack, bootlace, boracite, botanica, brocatel, cabestro, cabotage, cabresto, cachalot, cachepot, calathos, calottes, calotype, calthrop, caltrops, calutron, canoeist, canonist, cantdogs, cantonal, cantoned, canzonet, capitols, caponata, capstone, captions, captious, caretook, carotene, carotids, carotins, carports, carrotin, carryout, cartload, cartoned, cartoons, cartoony, cartouch, caryotin, castoffs, castrato, catacomb, cataloes, catalogs, catboats, catechol, category, catenoid, cathodal, cathodes, cathodic, catholic, cathouse, cationic, cattalos, cautions, cautious, caveator, cavettos, cavorted, cavorter, celomata, cenotaph, centavos, ceratoid, challoth, chantors, chariots, chayotes, chelator, chitosan, chlorate, cholates, chordate, chromate, cilantro, citation, citators, citatory, clitoral, clodpate, coacting, coaction, coactive, coactors, coadmits, coagents, coaliest, coalpits, coapting, coarsest, coassist, coasters, coasting, coatings, coatless, coatrack, coatroom, coattail, coattend, coattest, coauthor, cobaltic, cockatoo, cockboat, cocktail, cocoanut, cocomats, cocreate, coenacts, coequate, cofactor, cogitate, cognates, cohabits, cohobate, coinmate, coitally, collaret, collated, collates, collator, colocate, colorant, comatiks, comatose, comatula, combated, combater, cometary, comitial, compacts, comparts, compleat, conation, conative, conepate, conepatl, conflate, congrats, constant, contacts, contagia, contains, continua, contract, contrail, contrary, contrast, coolants, coparent, copastor, copatron, copemate, copulate, copycats, corantos, corelate, coronate, corotate, cortical, corybant, cosecant, costards, costmary, cotenant, cotquean, cottager, cottages, cottagey, couchant, countian, courante, couranto, courants, couteaux, covalent, covenant, crackpot, cratonic, creation, creators, cremator, cryostat, curators, cyanotic, daltonic, decorate, democrat, diatomic, diatonic, dicrotal, dictator, doctoral, dogcarts, dogmatic, dogwatch, downcast, dystocia, ecotonal, ectopias, ectosarc, ectozoan, educator, enactors, enactory, endocast, erotical, escargot, eschalot, evocator, exaction, exactors, factions, factious, factoids, factored, factotum, falconet, fatstock, footpace, footrace, forecast, fraction, halachot, haricots, hecatomb, hoactzin, hotcakes, iceboats, impactor, inaction, inchoate, invocate, iotacism, isotachs, jackboot, jackpots, jaconets, kathodic, lacteous, lactones, lactonic, lactoses, localist, localite, locality, locaters, locating, location, locative, locators, loculate, locustae, locustal, loricate, massicot, matchbox, mattocks, maxicoat, mercapto, metazoic, mobocrat, monastic, monocrat, moschate, motorcar, mycetoma, narcotic, nonactor, nonfacts, notecase, oatcakes, obstacle, occipita, occupant, oceanaut, ocellate, octagons, octangle, octanols, octantal, octarchy, octonary, offcasts, offtrack, oiticica, oothecae, oothecal, opencast, operatic, optician, orgastic, oscitant, osculant, osculate, ostracod, ostracon, outacted, outbacks, outcaper, outcaste, outcasts, outcatch, outcavil, outcharm, outcheat, outclass, outcoach, outcrawl, outdance, outfaced, outfaces, outmarch, outmatch, outpaced, outpaces, outraced, outraces, outrance, outreach, outwatch, overacts, overcast, overcoat, pactions, panoptic, peacoats, pectoral, piscator, platonic, poetical, polecats, portance, postcard, postcava, postface, postrace, potassic, potlache, potlatch, protatic, protract, raincoat, reaction, reactors, redactor, redcoats, relocate, retroact, ricottas, romantic, sacatons, sanction, scotomas, scotopia, seacoast, seascout, sectoral, slotback, societal, softback, sonantic, sonicate, soutache, spiccato, staccato, stoccado, stoccata, stockade, stockcar, stockman, stomachs, stomachy, stomatic, surcoats, tachyons, tacnodes, taconite, tactions, tailcoat, tapiocas, teocalli, theocrat, thoracal, thoraces, thoracic, tobaccos, toccatas, tombacks, topcoats, tornadic, touracos, tovarich, toxaemic, toxicant, trachoma, traction, tractors, traprock, trifocal, trochaic, trochars, trochlea, tropical, tuckahoe, turacous, turbocar, turncoat, uncoated, vacation, varactor, victoria, vocalist, vocality, vocation, vocative, voracity, vortical, wainscot, watchdog, watchout, woodchat, zacatons.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: Taco


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

54 61 63 6F

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

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Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

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Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01010100 01100001 01100011 01101111

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#84 &#97 &#99 &#111

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0054 0061 0063 006F

British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

54676981

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Crosswords
4. Usage: Modern
5. Usage: Commercial
6. Images: Slideshow
7. Quotations: Familiar
8. Quotations: Non-fiction
9. Usage Frequency
10. Names: Company Usage
11. Expressions
12. Expressions: Internet
13. Translations: Modern
14. Abbreviations
15. Acronyms
16. Derivations
17. Rhymes
18. Anagrams
19. Orthography
20. Bibliography


  

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