taco
Meaning
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- (Mexico, masculine) taco
- (masculine) peg (a short, thick piece of wood, metal, or other material)
- (masculine) dowel (a longer piece of wood, plastic, or other material)
- (masculine) stopper, plug, wad (small bundle of material made to cover, stop, or fill a hole)
- (Argentina, Bolivia, Chile, Dominican-Republic, Ecuador, Paraguay, Peru, Uruguay, masculine) heel (of a shoe)
- (masculine) cue (a stick used to play billiards, snooker, pool, etc)
- (Chile, masculine) traffic jam
- (Spain, masculine) curse word, swear word
- (Spain, colloquial, masculine) a load, a lot
- (Spain, colloquial, in-plural, masculine) years of age
- (Mexico, colloquial, masculine) small, pointed projections on the bottom of football boots which provide traction and stability on various surfaces.
Concepts
Synonyms
palabra malsonante
persona pequeña
alias trancón
fusible electrico
tacuba
taquechi
congestión del tráfico
Frequency
Hyphenated as
ta‧co
Pronounced as (IPA)
/ˈtako/
Etymology
Uncertain, probably borrowed from Italian tacco; ultimately from Proto-Germanic *takkô (“spike, nail”).
Related words
New
tacar
- (transitive) To hit the balls, in a game of billiards, with a cue
- (transitive) To put a bunch of people or things in one place.
- (archaic,transitive) To point out something, in doing so, causing a stain, a hole, some damage.
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