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taco
 v.— «“A little over a year ago, I hit a rock or something, I went flipping over, I scraped up my face and tacoed my front rim,” he says. Er, folded up his tire like a taco.» —“Hot Bike Trails” Orange County Register Mar. 30, 1997. (source: Double-Tongued Dictionary)

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