taco
Meanings
Noun
1. peg (a short, thick piece of wood, metal, or other material)
2. dowel (a longer piece of wood, plastic, or other material)
3. cue (a stick used to play billiards, snooker, pool, etc)
a. billiards (colloquial, Peru, Bolivia)
b. billiards player (slang, Venezuela, Ecuador)
c. pool hall (colloquial, Peru)
4. polo-stick; mallet (Rioplatense, sports)
5. stopper, plug, wad (small bundle of material made to cover, stop, or fill a hole)
6. heel (of a shoe) (Nicaragua, Puerto Rico, Andes Mountains, Dominican Republic, Southern Cone)
a. cleats (soccer, Mexico, Honduras, El Salvador, Nicaragua, Costa Rica, Panama, Colombia, Spain)
b. shoe (colloquial, Colombia)
7. traffic jam (Chile)
8. curse word, swear word (Spain)
9. a load, a lot (Spain, colloquial)
10. years of age (Spain, colloquial, in the plural)
11. taco (Mexico, Central America, Bolivia, cooking)
Examples11
Empezó a soltar tacos.
He started swearing.
Hoy cumplo veinticinco tacos.
Today, I turn twenty-five years old.
A ver esos tacos.
Watch your language.
Empezó a soltar tacos.
He started swearing.
Si mencionan México, los tacos se me vienen a la mente.
Mention Mexico, and tacos come to mind.
¡Están lloviendo tacos del cielo!
It's raining tacos from out of the sky!