Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

indian taco

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: 3.66 in modern English

Syllables: in-di-an -ta-co
IPA

13

Scrabble Score

10

Letters

5

Syllables

7

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

A dish made of fry bread topped with ingredients such as beans, cheese, and lettuce.

Example Sentences

"If you stay for lunch, local Society of American Indian members will be home - cooking such native delicacies as puffy fried bread, thick Indian tacos and spicy chili beans."
"when I'm having an Indian taco day / I discover it's just about too late / not to educate the oppressor / but am I ever good at doing it"
""Lony, you like the taste of Indian tacos, right?" Orvil says."

Etymology

Ostensibly from Indian + taco, based on the use of frybread, an American Indian food, similarity of toppings to those in tacos, and the fact that the frybread is sometimes folded as part of the dish.

Inflected Forms

Indian tacos (plural)

Synonyms

frybread taco fry bread taco fried bread taco Navajo taco Hopi taco Tewa taco Hualapai taco Pueblo taco Apache taco

Questions

What does indian taco mean?: A dish made of fry bread topped with ingredients such as beans, cheese, and lettuce.
Where does indian taco come from?: Ostensibly from Indian + taco, based on the use of frybread, an American Indian food, similarity of toppings to those in tacos, and the fact that the frybread is sometimes folded as part of the dish.

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