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taquito

taquito

5 6.5
A small rolled tortilla filled with meat or cheese and fried until crisp
  • noun
  • /tɑˈkiːtoʊ/
  • US
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  • For a quick snack, I made some homemade taquitos with leftover chicken.
  • a plate of taquitos

Like that's not the tortilla with the chicken inside the taquitos.

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Synonyms

taco
vstaquito
160 1.0

A folded tortilla filled with meat, beans, lettuce, or cheese

is a smaller fried rolled snack usually filled with meat or cheese

How Crunchy

taquito
  • US
5 6.5
taco
160 1.0
torta
  • US
1 6.5

Surface Forms

taquito singular
taquitos plural

Etymology

The word taquito comes from Spanish: it is the familiar taco plus the small ending -ito, where -ito means 'little', so taquito literally means a 'little taco' and is used for a small rolled, fried tortilla snack.