Meanings
verbTACO out (third-person singular simple present TACOs out, present participle TACOing out, simple past and past participle TACOed out)
present singular third person TACOs out · participle present TACOing out · participle past TACOed out · past TACOed out
- USinformalintransitiveneologismgovernmentOf Donald Trump, to pause or back down from aggressive policies.
Origin
From TACO + out, by analogy with chicken out (“to refuse something out of fear”).
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TACO out. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/TACO%20out
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“TACO out.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/TACO%20out. Accessed November 4, 2026.
Chicago
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “TACO out,” accessed November 4, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/TACO%20out.
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