- a Mexican dish consisting of a tortilla filled with meat and covered with a spicy sauceTopics Foodc2Word OriginLatin American Spanish, feminine past participle of enchilar ‘season with chilli’.
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See enchilada in the Oxford Advanced American Dictionarythe big enchilada
- (North American English, informal, humorous) the most important person or thing
the whole enchilada
- (informal) the whole thing; everything
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