taco terrier

noun

A pint-sized designer hybrid dog created by crossing a Chihuahua with a Toy Fox Terrier.

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Meanings

nountaco terrier (plural taco terriers)

plural taco terriers

  1. informalA pint-sized designer hybrid dog created by crossing a Chihuahua with a Toy Fox Terrier.

    The neighbors' bipolar taco terrier wasn't even barking.

    2013 March 21, L.J.K. Oliva, chapter 1, in A World Apart (Shades Below, #1), page 15
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    White-faced, she looked down at the hybrid designer dog resting at her feet, his green Santa’s elf costume making a mockery of the fierce dog hidden inside his little Taco-Terrier body. [...] Behind Caroline and her little Taco dog, the news report came...

    2014, Cat Gardiner, Lucky 13, page 120

Origin

From taco + terrier, taco referencing the Chihuahua’s common association with Mexican culture.

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APA

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

MLA

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

Chicago

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

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