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enchilada
[ en-chuh-lah-duh, -lad-uh ]
noun
- a tortilla rolled and filled with a seasoned mixture, usually containing meat, and covered with a sauce flavored with chiles.
enchilada
/ ˌɛԳʃɪˈɑːə /
noun
- a Mexican dish consisting of a tortilla fried in hot fat, filled with meat, and served with a chilli sauce
Word History and Origins
Origin of enchilada1
Word History and Origins
Origin of enchilada1
Idioms and Phrases
- big / top enchilada, Slang. big enchilada ( def ).
- whole enchilada, Slang. the entirety of something, especially something impressive or outstanding:
She has a job with money, prestige, and satisfaction—the whole enchilada.
More idioms and phrases containing enchilada
see big cheese (enchilada) ; whole ball of wax (enchilada) .Compare Meanings
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Example Sentences
I’ve also gotten really good enchiladas there, and fish and chips.
He’s been dogged by the notion that he’s somehow too young for the big enchilada.
The ignorance — yes, we assimilate, and no, we’re not sleeper agents hell-bent on retaking the American Southwest through demographics and enchiladas — mostly amuses me when it doesn’t offend.
He loved to hunt and cook, sometimes combining the two passions at the fire station by serving quail enchiladas, the poultry fresh from a recent hunt.
Examples of food provided in the breast cancer clinical trial included peanut soba noodles, steel cut oatmeal, banana flax muffins, sweet potato enchiladas, and Mediterranean white bean soup.
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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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