taco rice

noun

A yoshoku dish from Okinawa, mainly consisting of ground beef on a bed of rice.

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Meanings

nountaco rice (uncountable)
  1. uncountableA yoshoku dish from Okinawa, mainly consisting of ground beef on a bed of rice.

Origin

Phono-semantic matching from Japanese タコライス (takoraisu), itself a wasei eigo (和製英語; pseudo-anglicism) derived from taco + rice.

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APA

taco rice. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/taco%20rice

MLA

“taco rice.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/taco%20rice. Accessed November 4, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “taco rice,” accessed November 4, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/taco%20rice.

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