Usually means: Steamed corn dough with filling.
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  1. Tamale, tamale: Merriam-Webster
  2. tamale: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. tamale: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. tamale: Collins English Dictionary
  5. Tamale, tamale: Vocabulary.com
  6. Tamale, tamale: Wordnik
  7. tamale: Wiktionary
  8. tamale: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  9. tamale: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  10. tamale: Infoplease Dictionary
  11. tamale: Dictionary.com
  12. tamale: Online Etymology Dictionary
  13. Tamale: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  14. tamale: Rhymezone
  15. tamale: FreeDictionary.org
  16. tamale: Mnemonic Dictionary
  17. tamale: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. tamale: Linda's Culinary Dictionary
  2. Epicurus.com Spanish Glossary (No longer online)

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  1. Tamale: Encyclopedia

Slang (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Tamale (offensive): Racial Slur Database
  2. tamale: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  3. TAMALE: Urban Dictionary

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noun:  A Mexican dish of cornmeal dough shell filled with various ingredients (e.g. chopped beef, pork, sweet filling) then steamed in corn husks.
noun:  A city in Ghana, the capital city of the Northern Region.

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