Meanings
plural Indian tacos
- A dish made of fry bread topped with ingredients such as beans, cheese, and lettuce.
"Lony, you like the taste of Indian tacos, right?" Orvil says.
2018, Tommy Orange, There, There, 1st; Everybody Reads edition, New York: Vintage Books, published 2020, →ISBN, →LCCN, page 1312 more examples
If you stay for lunch, local Society of American Indian members will be home - cooking such native delicacies as puffy fried bread, thick Indian tacos and spicy chili beans.
1976 April 21, Pat Kennedy, “Indian festival set May 1”, in The Pleasanton Times, volume 90, number 116, Pleasanton, page 4when I'm having an Indian taco day / I discover it's just about too late / not to educate the oppressor / but am I ever good at doing it
1992, Annharte, “Coyote Columbus Cafe”, in Terry Goldie, Daniel David Moses, editors, An Anthology of Canadian Native Literature in English, 2nd edition, Oxford University Press, published 1998, →ISBN, page 195Synonyms: frybread taco, fry bread taco, fried bread taco, Navajo taco, Hopi taco, Tewa taco, Hualapai taco, Pueblo taco
Synonyms & antonyms
nounA dish made of fry bread topped with ingredients such as beans, cheese, and lettuce.
Origin
Apparently from Indian + taco, based on the use of fry bread, an American Indian food, similarity of toppings to those in tacos, and the fact that the fry bread is sometimes folded as part of the dish.
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