taco
/ˈtako/ · B1 · noun · m
peg
🪵🎱 taco sounds like tack: a short thing you drive into wood
A taco is a plug or peg; taco de billar is a pool cue. The Mexican food got the same name, possibly from the idea of a stuffed wad or plug. Plug, peg, cue: all short, solid sticks.