chalupa

Borrowed from Mexican Spanish chalupa. Doublet of shallop and sloop.

• (General American) IPA^(key): /t͡ʃəˈluːpə/

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chalupa (plural chalupas)

1. A shallop (light boat) from Xochimilco.
2. A specialty food of south-central Mexico, consisting of a bowl-shaped fried tortilla stuffed with chopped meat, lettuce, cheese, etc.
   • 2018, Dotty Griffith, The Ultimate Tortilla Press Cookbook, page 116:

     The Tex-Mex–style chalupas I'm most familiar with are built on flat, crisp-fried corn tortillas.

   • 2021 May 6, Lyda Jones Burnette, “Shrimp Chalupas”, in Country Living Magazine:

     (see title)

   • 2021 December 6, Hannah Albertine, Nikko Duren, Carlo Mantuano, “NYC’s Best New Dishes Of 2021”, in The Infatuation:

     The tortillas for the chalupas are cooked in pork lard on a charcoal-fired comal, and they get doused with salsa, shredded pork, and onions.

• drop a chalupa
• enchalupa
• quesalupa

• chalupita

Inherited from Old Czech chalupa, from Proto-Slavic *xalupa.

• IPA^(key): [ˈxalupa]

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chalupa f

1. cottage; rural house

• “chalupa”, in Příruční slovník jazyka českého (in Czech), 1935–1957
• “chalupa”, in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého (in Czech), 1960–1971, 1989
• “chalupa”, in Internetová jazyková příručka (in Czech), 2008–2025

Borrowed from French chaloupe,^[1][2] likely from Old French eschalope (“shell”).

• Hyphenation: cha‧lu‧pa

chalupa f (plural chalupas)

1. sloop (single-masted sailboat)

chalupa m or f (plural chalupas)

1. (Portugal) crazy, mad

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *xalupa.

• IPA^(key): [ˈxalupa]

chalupa f (diminutive chalúpka or chalúpočka or chalúpčička, augmentative chalupisko)

1. cottage; rural house

• “chalupa”, in Slovníkový portál Jazykovedného ústavu Ľ. Štúra SAV [Dictionary portal of the Ľ. Štúr Institute of Linguistics, Slovak Academy of Science] (in Slovak), https://slovnik.juls.savba.sk, 2003–2025

Borrowed from French chaloupe, from Old French eschalope (“shell”).

• IPA^(key): /t͡ʃaˈlupa/ [t͡ʃaˈlu.pa]
• Rhymes: -upa
• Syllabification: cha‧lu‧pa

chalupa f (plural chalupas)

1. (nautical) shallop, sloop, launch (a kind of longboat)
2. (Chile) flip-flop, slipper, sandal
3. (Mexico) two-man canoe
4. (Mexico) a chalupa (bowl-shaped fried tortilla stuffed with chopped meat, lettuce, cheese, etc.)
5. (Mexico, slang) fat girl

• → English: chalupa

• “chalupa”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 10 December 2024