Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A small, often triangular piece of a tostada, topped with cheese and often chili-pepper sauce and broiled.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A tortilla chip topped with cheese and often chili-pepper or beans and then broiled; -- eaten as a snack or light meal.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A single
tortilla chip from a dish ofnachos .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a tortilla chip topped with cheese and chili-pepper and broiled
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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Each nacho is its own entity (and that is key), with just enough toppings to give it flavor and a bit of heft but not enough to make it saggy or soggy.
Archive 2008-01-01 Homesick Texan 2008
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The state of the nacho is worse than I thought if someone whose family is from Piedras Negras never thought of them the "proper" way.
Nachos 101 | Homesick Texan Homesick Texan 2008
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Each nacho is its own entity (and that is key), with just enough toppings to give it flavor and a bit of heft but not enough to make it saggy or soggy.
Nachos 101 | Homesick Texan Homesick Texan 2008
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With the ring upon her finger, we got off the ride and got some wine coolers and soft pretzels and dipped them in nacho cheese while listening to the country-band-of-the-hour sing love songs in the shadow of the Cotton Bowl.
Archive 2005-03-01 2005
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Oh, and the "red bag doritos" are called nacho cheese!
SNACK ATTACK! Jill 2010
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Just to be totally clear, the women who ordered the "nacho" were officer's wives, from a nearby Air Force base.
Nachos 101 | Homesick Texan Homesick Texan 2008
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For me, and for every Texan, there is only one kind of nacho: the latter.
Archive 2008-01-01 Homesick Texan 2008
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For me, and for every Texan, there is only one kind of nacho: the latter.
Nachos 101 | Homesick Texan Homesick Texan 2008
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Last August, "nacho" del Valle was hit with an additional 45 years for the Atenco Resistance.
Free the Atenco 13! 2008
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He said he made a play on the word "nacho," then told Small it was the punchline to an old joke that he couldn't remember.
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