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According to the Real Academia Española, publisher of Diccionario de la Lengua Española, the word taco describes a typical Mexican dish of a maize tortilla folded around food (" Tortilla de maíz enrollada con algún alimento dentro, típica de México ").

The original sense of the word is of a " plug " or " wad " used to fill a hole (" Pedazo de madera, metal u otra materia, corto y grueso, que se encaja en algún hueco ").

The Online Etymological Dictionary defines taco as a " tortilla filled with spiced meat " and describes its etymology as derived from Mexican Spanish, " light lunch ," literally, " plug, wadding.

" The sense development from " plug " may have taken place among Mexican silver miners, who used explosive charges in plug form consisting of a paper wrapper and gunpowder filling.