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taco.

peg (a short, thick piece of wood, metal, or other material)

4 characters2 syllables approx.Español language

Meaning & usage

noun/ˈtako/[ˈt̪a.ko]
  1. peg (a short, thick piece of wood, metal, or other material)

    masculine
  2. dowel (a longer piece of wood, plastic, or other material)

    masculine
  3. cue (a stick used to play billiards, snooker, pool, etc) billiards

    Bolivia · Peru · colloquial · masculine
  4. cue (a stick used to play billiards, snooker, pool, etc) billiards player

    Ecuador · Venezuela · masculine · slang
  5. cue (a stick used to play billiards, snooker, pool, etc) pool hall

    Peru · colloquial · masculine
  6. polo-stick; mallet

    Rioplatense · masculine
  7. stopper, plug, wad (small bundle of material made to cover, stop, or fill a hole)

    masculine
  8. heel (of a shoe)

    Dominican-Republic · Nicaragua · Puerto-Rico · masculine
  9. heel (of a shoe) cleats

    Colombia · Costa-Rica · Dominican-Republic · El-Salvador · Honduras · Mexico · Nicaragua · Panama · Puerto-Rico · Spain · masculine
  10. heel (of a shoe) shoe

    Colombia · Dominican-Republic · Nicaragua · Puerto-Rico · colloquial · masculine
  11. traffic jam

    Chile · masculine
  12. curse word, swear word

    Spain · masculine
    Empezó a soltar tacos.
  13. a load, a lot

    Spain · colloquial · masculine
  14. years of age

    Spain · colloquial · in-plural · masculine
    Hoy cumplo veinticinco tacos.
Where this word comes from

Uncertain, probably borrowed from Italian tacco; ultimately from Proto-West Germanic *takkō (“twig, branch, shoot”).

noun/ˈtako/[ˈt̪a.ko]
  1. taco

    Bolivia · Central-America · Mexico · masculine
Where this word comes from

Uncertain. One theory is that the original tacos were rolled (like what are now known as taquitos) and resembled the rolled-up explosive charges used in mines (tacos de minero), making it the same word as taco (“plug, wad”) above. Another theory is that it derives from Nahuatl tlahco (middle, center, half), referring to the placement of the filling; tortillas, though not tacos, are known to be pre-Columbian.

verb/ˈtako/[ˈt̪a.ko]
  1. first-person singular present indicative of tacar

    first-person · form-of · indicative · present · singular
Where this word comes from

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