tacon.

1949 Amer. Speech 24 235/2 The touristas almost always eat in a Mexican restaurant and bravely attempt to order their meals in Spanish. Such meals are (1) [tækoz], a mispronunciation of the Spanish word tacos [takos].

1957 J. Kerouac On the Road i. xiii. 93 We went into a Mexican restaurant and had tacos and mashed pinto beans.

1965 Austral. Women's Weekly 20 Jan. 25/1 She would serve up a traditional Mexican dish of unsurpassable excellence, the white meat..rolled up in a delicate crisp pancake, or taco.

1966 Listener 4 Aug. 164/2 Tacos..are tortillas rolled round shredded meat or bird and fried in oil.

1971 Islander (Victoria, Brit. Columbia) 4 July 2/4 Friends in San Diego had introduced us to tortillas and tacos.

1978 S. Wilson Dealer's Move vi. 107 Washing the food down with two strong cups of tea and mopping up with South London's answer to tacos, sliced white loaf.

1967 Trans-action Apr. 8/1 Time is alive when and where there is action... During the regular school year it may pick up for an hour in the afternoon when the ‘broads’ leave school and meet with the set at a corner taco joint.

1977 Time 28 Nov. 58/1 Some have about as much feeling for a community's sense of itself and its needs as does the imported manager of a franchised taco joint on the highway outside of town.

1976 Punch 11 Aug. 227/1 I took to enchilada mix, tortillas, taco sauce, and all those Mexican delicacies.

1977 Daily News (Perth, Austral.) 19 Jan. 13 (advt.) Taco—a crisp tortilla filled with beef, onions, lettuce, taco sauce and cheese.

1969 D. MacKenzie Night Boat to Puerto Vedra (1970) 172 A few seamen were at the taco stands... He bought himself a cone of maize flour filled with peppered ground meat.

1979 R. L. Simon Peking Duck ii. 18 Jogging behind a gas station and a taco stand to a nondescript stucco gate.