Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- A trademark for a very spicy sauce made from a strong-flavored red pepper.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The trade-name given to a pungent sauce and to a catsup made from a variety of Capsicum annuum (see pepper) and said to be prepared by extracting the pulp of the ripe fruit and so treating it as to retain its flavor, strength, aroma, and color.
- noun A name which has been applied by seedsmen to various forms of
Capsicum annuum .
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- proper noun A state of
Mexico . - noun A
spicy pepper sauce made fromtabasco pepper (achili pepper ) with the addition ofvinegar andsalt .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a Mexican state on the Gulf of Campeche
- noun very hot red peppers; usually long and thin; some very small
- noun very spicy sauce (trade name Tabasco) made from fully-aged red peppers
Etymologies
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Examples
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SHANE BERNARD, TABASCO HISTORIAN: There was one pepper plant left in the family garden, and from that one pepper plant Edmund picked the peppers from which he made his sauce and from which all Tabasco sauce is made today, really.
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The beheadings and police takeover by the feds in Tabasco is true and big news here but that really has nothing to do with outsiders.
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I regret to hear you lost your cane crop this year and am aware of the flooding in Tabasco that seems to have destroyed this year´s cane crop on your lands.
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I regret to hear you lost your cane crop this year and am aware of the flooding in Tabasco that seems to have destroyed this year´s cane crop on your lands.
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But I do have a home in Tabasco, so I am not a total idiot concerning Mexico.
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But I do have a home in Tabasco, so I am not a total idiot concerning Mexico.
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I think the flavor of white oak in the Tabasco is good here.
Saved by red beans and rice | Homesick Texan Homesick Texan 2009
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But I do have a home in Tabasco, so I am not a total idiot concerning Mexico.
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Steven Monroe, who ate pizza topped with hot sauce in Tabasco's 1998 ad.
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I regret to hear you lost your cane crop this year and am aware of the flooding in Tabasco that seems to have destroyed this year´s cane crop on your lands.
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