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taco
[ tah-koh; Spanish tah-kaw ]
noun
plural tacos
- Mexican Cooking. a tortilla filled with various ingredients, as beans, rice, chopped meat, cheese, and tomatoes, and folded over in half or rolled into a loose cylinder shape: The downside of hard-shell tacos is that you can鈥檛 fit as much stuff in a fried tortilla.
My favorite breakfast taco has eggs, bacon, and cheese on a flour tortilla.
The downside of hard-shell tacos is that you can鈥檛 fit as much stuff in a fried tortilla.
taco
/ 藞迟蓱藧办蓹蕣 /
noun
- Mexican cookery a tortilla folded into a roll with a filling and usually fried
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亚洲网紅露点 History and Origins
Origin of taco1
First recorded in 1930鈥35; from Mexican Spanish; perhaps a shortening of taco de minero 鈥渕iner鈥檚 plug,鈥 from the resemblance of the food to an explosive charge used in silver mines, from Spanish taco 鈥渨ad, plug, wedge鈥; further origin uncertain
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亚洲网紅露点 History and Origins
Origin of taco1
from Mexican Spanish, from Spanish: literally, a snack, a bite to eat
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