chile con queso

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chile con queso

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From Spanish chile con queso (“chili with cheese”).

noun chili con queso

  1. uncountable A creamy sauce used as a dip, made from melted cheese and chili peppers. Big Tony, who had been quietly puffing on his cigarillo at the door—no intruders here!—takes delivery of an impressive three-foot-high spray of flowers and very carefully walks over and deposits it square in the middle of a steam table, right in the rickety middle of hissing bowls of chile con queso

    Similar: queso

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@misc{chile_con_queso_2026,
  title = {chile con queso},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/chile%20con%20queso},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}