Definition of burrito
burritos
: a flour tortilla rolled or folded around a filling (as of meat, beans, and cheese)
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A turkey fresco sub at Potbelly has 720 calories, and a chicken burrito from Chipotle can pack more than 1,000.
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All that music, accompanied by Trader Joe’s wine and the burrito or two, officially gets started on June 10, with the Playboy Jazz Festival.
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The restaurant offers a menu that’s largely customizable, with items such as bao tacos, mandu, burritos and rice bowls.
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Located at 1200 Washington St., Suite B, Spokes serves such breakfast items as southwest breakfast burritos, gourmet toast (with avocado, fresh tomato and sea salt) and quiche of the day.
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Most notably, an Anglo-run Portland burrito pop-up, quickly closed after charges of cultural appropriation and even recipe theft.
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Portions can be out-sized, especially fajitas, burritos and desserts.
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Chipotle's restaurateur program provides a path for employees who might start out earning an hourly wage assembling burritos to achieve the upper ranks of management and six-figure salaries.
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So, back in the desert, in the burrito shacks near El Mirage, in the fast-food joints of Palmdale, the engineers working on tomorrow's UAVs thumb through their newspapers tracking the performance of the robot planes in the Balkans.
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Origin and Etymology of burrito
American Spanish, from Spanish, little donkey, diminutive of burro
BURRITO Defined for English Language Learners
burrito
playDefinition of burrito for English Language Learners
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: a Mexican food that consists of a flour tortilla that is rolled or folded around a filling (such as meat, beans, and cheese)
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