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☆ taco (tä′kō)

noun pl. tacos -·cos

a Mexican dish consisting of a fried and folded or rolled tortilla filled with chopped meat, shredded lettuce, etc.

Etymology: AmSp < Sp, a plug, wadding, light lunch

Webster's New World College Dictionary Copyright © 2005 by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Cleveland, Ohio.
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Taco is a Mexican food item but in most spanish speaking countries it could mean a cue ball stick or the heel of a shoe. I am from the Caribbean and never saw a (food) taco until I was 21 and it was in Montreal Canada. Until globalization and the spread of American fast food places in Spain, for instance, and South America they would have called you crazy for wanting the heel of a shoe for lunch

Posted by anonymous 59 days ago.

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