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taco terrier en · NOUN

Etymology

From taco + terrier, taco referencing the Chihuahua’s common association with Mexican culture.

Meanings

1. (informal) A pint-sized designer hybrid dog created by crossing a Chihuahua with a Toy Fox Terrier.
   • White-faced, she looked down at the hybrid designer dog resting at her feet, his green Santa’s elf costume making a mockery of the fierce dog hidden inside his little Taco-Terrier body. [...] Behind Caroline and her little Taco dog, the news report came... 2014, Cat Gardiner, Lucky 13, page 120:
   • The neighbors' bipolar taco terrier wasn't even barking. 2013 March 21, L.J.K. Oliva, chapter 1, in A World Apart (Shades Below, #1), page 15:

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taco dog