taco

ta·co
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US/ˈtɑkoʊ/US[ˈtʰɑkoʊ]Australia, New Zealand/ˈtɐːkəʊ/UK/ˈtækəʊ/

noun

A Mexican snack food made of a small tortilla (soft- or hard-shelled) filled with ingredients such as meat, rice, beans, cheese, diced vegetables, and salsa.

Less commonScrabble 6

Meanings

taco1

nountaco (plural tacos)

plural tacos

  1. cookingA Mexican snack food made of a small tortilla (soft- or hard-shelled) filled with ingredients such as meat, rice, beans, cheese, diced vegetables, and salsa.
  2. USslangThe vulva.

    […] zombies have to eat and the best place to on any female is the pink taco.

    2009, Albert Mudrian, Precious Metal: Decibel Presents the Stories Behind 25 Extreme Metal Masterpieces, Da Capo Press, page 159
    2 more examples

    […] while grinding her pink taco into my groin as if trying to gain even more of my sizable ...

    2007, Various, Sex & Seduction: 20 Erotic Stories, Accent Press Ltd, page 130

    "[…] was it really necessary to make your maid piss herself? Even if you think your husband is hiding his sausage in her taco, that was brazen. Jesus, Lana."

    2015, Cynthia Dane, A Fragile Wife: A Billionaire Romance, Barachou Press

    Synonyms: pink taco

  3. USslangA yellow stain on a shirt's armpit caused by sweat or deodorant.
verbtaco (third-person singular simple present tacos, present participle tacoing, simple past and past participle tacoed)

present singular third person tacos · participle present tacoing · participle past tacoed · past tacoed

  1. ambitransitiveslangTo fold or cause to buckle in half, similar to the way a taco is folded.

    I'd left it in neutral and it rolled straight back into the barn and tacoed that door.

    2008, Sally Stenhouse Kneidel, Going Green: A Wise Consumer's Guide to a Shrinking Planet
    3 more examples

    The boat tacoed — the front and rear bent in — and I was holding onto a strap on the frame, sitting more on the tube than the frame, and I was catapulted forward.

    1996, Arizona Highways - Volume 72, page 9

    J.T. was in full scoop mode and whaling down the descent and he creamed into the dude, tacoed his front wheel, sheared off his front brake, and came as close to cursing as he ever has.

    2003, Bob Roll, Bobke II, →ISBN, page 91

    He turned off the light and laid on the couch, tacoing the pillow behind his head and inhaling the smell of Melanie Owen.

    2016, Jennifer Moore, Safe Harbor, →ISBN

Taco2

phrase
  1. Alternative letter-case form of TACO; acronym of Trump always chickens out.

    This is the Taco theory: Trump Always Chickens Out. […] The key difference between this and the “Taco” theory is that the safe haven status of the US was never really in doubt; the world order was never on the cusp of a generational change.

    2025 May 2, Robert Armstrong, “The US market’s surprise comeback”, in Financial Times, archived from the original on 29 May 2025

TACO3

nounTACO (countable and uncountable, plural TACOs)

plural TACOs

  1. abbreviationcountableinitialismuncountablemedicineInitialism of transfusion-associated circulatory overload.

TACO4

phrase

alternative Taco

  1. USabbreviationacronymneologismgovernmentAcronym of Trump always chickens out.

    This is the TACO theory: ["]Trump Always Chickens Out," Armstrong wrote on May 2.

    2025 May 28, Aimee Picchi, “Trump was asked about the "TACO" trade and called it a "nasty question." Here's what it means.”, in CBS News, archived from the original on 01 Jun 2025
    4 more examples

    The “TACO” trades, first coined by the Financial Times, are one of the ways Wall Street has managed to profit from the chaos of the Trump administration.

    2025 May 28, Ali Bianco, “Trump’s not happy about Wall Street’s name for tariff flip-flops”, in POLITICO, archived from the original on 01 Jun 2025

    This time, Trump appeared to relish declaring that there would not be another TACO moment, writing on social media last night, “IT’S MIDNIGHT!!! BILLIONS OF DOLLARS IN TARIFFS ARE NOW FLOWING INTO THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA!”

    2025 August 7, Jonathan Lemire, “Things Aren’t Going Donald Trump’s Way”, in The Atlantic, archived from the original on 07 Aug 2025

    The TACO option — and a declaration of victory whether it’s genuine or not — does look attractive.

    2026 March 24, Stephen Collinson, “Why Trump may not be able to TACO in Iran — even if he wants to”, in CNN, archived from the original on 24 Mar 2026

    Investor were treated to TACO Thursday this week. Donald Trump called off planned attacks against Iran on Thursday, backing down from earlier threats to resume military action. His pivot sent stocks soaring and pushed oil prices lower.

    2026 June 11, Max Adams, “It's TACO time (again): Stocks surge after Trump cancels Iran strikes”, in Insider
proper noun

alternative Taco

  1. USderogatoryhumorousironicslanggovernmentNickname for Donald Trump (born 1946), President of the United States (2017–2021; since 2025).

    Who Went To VIETNAM In TACO’S PLACE?

    2025 June 18, “The tepid theatrics of Trump’s parade”, in The Washington Post (Sign held by demonstrator in photograph), archived from the original on 17 Jun 2025
    1 more example

    Last night, when Chip Cutter and Amrith Ramkumar reported that Señor TACO had publicly called for the resignation of Intel’s CEO— without evidence of wrongdoing—it marked another milestone in the authoritarian drift that has come to define his and his regime’s political DNA.

    2025 August 8, Howie Klein, “Trump’s Authoritarianism Is A Symptom— Totalitarianism And Oligarchy Are The Disease”, in DownWithTyranny, archived from the original on 24 Dec 2025

    Synonyms: DJT, The Donald, Trump, Cheeto, Dementia Don, Diaper Don, Dirty Donald, Donald Duck

Synonyms & antonyms

nounThe vulva.

Similar

proper nounNickname for Donald Trump (born 1946), President of the United States (2017–2021; since 2025).

More synonyms by meaning

noun(ethnic slur) offensive term for a person of Mexican descent

Broader

Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.

Origin

taco · noun, verb

  1. Mexican Spanishtaco
  2. Englishtaco

Borrowed from Mexican Spanish taco, of uncertain origin; see the Spanish entry for more.

Full word history & related roots →

TACO · phrase, proper noun

Coined by journalist Robert Armstrong in 2025 for the Financial Times on May 2 in a newspaper column. Named after President of the United States Donald J. Trump

Full word history & related roots →

Translations

Arabic تاكو
  • تاكو (tākū)Mexican snack food
Chinese Cantonese 墨西哥夾餅 /墨西哥夹饼
  • 墨西哥夾餅 /墨西哥夹饼 (mak⁶sai¹go¹ gaap³ beng²)Mexican snack food
Chinese Mandarin 玉米麵豆卷 /玉米面豆卷, 墨西哥夾餅 /墨西哥夹饼
  • 玉米麵豆卷 /玉米面豆卷 (yùmǐmiàn dòujuǎn)Mexican snack food
  • 墨西哥夾餅 /墨西哥夹饼 (mòxīgē jiābǐng)Mexican snack food
Dutch taco
  • tacoMexican snack food
Esperanto tako
  • takoMexican snack food
Finnish taco
  • tacoMexican snack food
French taco
  • tacoMexican snack food
German Taco
  • TacoMexican snack food
Greek τάκο
  • τάκο (táko)Mexican snack food
Hindi टाको
  • टाको (ṭāko)Mexican snack food
Indonesian taco, tako
  • tacoMexican snack food
  • takoMexican snack food
Japanese タコス, タコ
  • タコス (takosu)Mexican snack food
  • タコ (tako)Mexican snack food
Korean 타코
  • 타코 (tako)Mexican snack food
Māori tāko
  • tākoMexican snack food
Polish tacos
  • tacosMexican snack food
Portuguese taco
  • tacoMexican snack food
Russian та́ко
  • та́ко (táko)Mexican snack food
Spanish taco
  • tacoMexican snack food
Swedish taco, tacos
  • tacoMexican snack food
  • tacosMexican snack food
Yiddish טאַקאָ
  • טאַקאָ (tako)Mexican snack food

Rhymes & wordplay

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Cite this entry
APA

taco. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/taco

MLA

“taco.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/taco. Accessed November 2, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “taco,” accessed November 2, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/taco.

Source: taco on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.