- The safety taco is equivalent to a safety net, but with tacos. It is usually purchased on a late night food run. You must buy an extra taco because they are fairly inexpensive and it would be worse to be hungry than to throw away an extra taco.
Safety Taco
other word formation type not technical; noun
The extra taco from taco bell that you get because of your uncertainty of hunger level
Etymology : Safety comes from Old French, earlier "salvetet", from Modern Latin "salvitate", from Latin "salvus". Taco is from Mexican Spanish in 1949.
Source : "I'm not sure if I want to eat the safety taco." Conversation with friend- December 2011
Last modified: 6 December 2011