choco

• IPA^(key): /ˈt͡ʃɒkəʊ/

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• Rhymes: -ɒkəʊ

choco (countable and uncountable, plural chocos)

1. Clipping of chocolate.
   • 1991, Jean Paré, Cakes, page 64:

     CHOCO MAYO CAKE
     In this chocolate cake, mayonnaise is substituted for the butter. Good.

   • 1992, USAF [United States Air Force] Dental Investigation Service, Dental Items of Significance, page 5:

     Vision is a 2.7% sodium-fluoride containing prophylaxis paste available in 12 oz. jars or boxes of 225 individual cups. Three flavors (fruit punch, cool mint, or choco-mint) are available.

   • 2017, Siddharth Jayakumar, Umasree Raghunath, Simply Being Sidds!, page 180:

     She used to make choco pudding only for me whenever I went.

   • 2018, Thomas Ogden, The Hands of Gravity and Chance, page 15:

     “D, you’ve had a weak spot for hot chocolate since you were small. You used to call it ‘choco-treat.’”

2. (countable, Australia, obsolete) A militiaman or conscript; chocolate soldier. [1940s]
   • 1942, [James Andrew] Tip Kelaher, The Digger Hat and Other Verses:

     I've a letter here to hand,
     Saying Chockos, Yanks and Refugees
     Have overrun the land.

   • 1945, Sidney J. Baker, The Australian Language, page 152:

     In the second war, militiamen and conscripts generally were called chocos, […] in a tribute to them the Sydney “Sun” headed a leader on 2 September 1942: “Chocos with Hard Centres”.

3. (countable, Australia, slang) An army reservist.
4. (countable, Australia, slang) A person with dark skin tone. [from 1980s]
   • 1985, Sir Les Patterson [Barry Humphries], The Traveller’s Tool, page 89:

     Our ethnic minorities whether they be oil slicks, chockos or slopies have certainly given a new dimension to the Australian businessman’s lunch.

   • 1993 [1987], Kathy Lette, Girl’s Night Out, page 128:

     And it’s better than ending up with the latest dag her Mum’s lined up. This one's called Petro. He’s a big choc, you know really woggy

   • 2000, Ian Bone, Tin Soldiers, page 112:

     ‘I reckon we’ll call you Choco,’ said the Rat. “With – that tan of yours.’

• The slang term for a dark-skinned person may be used by such people themselves (as in the Australian television series Pizza), but is likely to be considered racist when used by others.

• cooch, hocco

Shortenings of compounds with chocolade (“chocolate”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈʃoː.koː/

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• Hyphenation: cho‧co

choco m (plural choco's, diminutive chocootje n)

1. solid chocolate; a bar or piece of chocolate
2. a chocolate milk, coco

   Synonyms: cacaomelk, chocolade, chocolademelk

3. a chocolate spread, a spread eaten on bread

   Synonyms: chocoladepasta, chocopasta

4. (Belgium, offensive, ethnic slur) Term of abuse for a person of black-African descent.
5. (Belgium, offensive, vulgar) a homosexual man

• chocopasta

Debated. Perhaps from choca (“cowbell”).^[1]

• IPA^(key): /ˈt͡ʃɔkʊ/

choco m (plural chocos)

1. cuttlefish

   Synonyms: chopo, sibia, xiba

Probably onomatopoeic, from *clocca, voice of a brood hen.^[2]

• IPA^(key): /ˈt͡ʃokʊ/

choco (feminine choca, masculine plural chocos, feminine plural chocas)

1. broody
2. stale

   Antonym: fresco

3. (of water) stagnant

choco

1. first-person singular present indicative of chocar

• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “choco”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega [Dictionary of Dictionaries of the Galician language] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, editors (2003–2018), “choco”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “choco”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN

Inherited from Vulgar Latin *cluccus, metathesis of *cuclus, from Latin cucullus (“hood”).^[1] Compare Galician and Spanish choco.

• Rhymes: -oku
• Hyphenation: cho‧co

choco m (plural chocos, metaphonic)

1. (zoology) cuttlefish (any of various squidlike cephalopod marine mollusks of the genus Sepia)

   Synonyms: sépia, siba

Deverbal from chocar (“to brood”).

• Rhymes: -oku
• Hyphenation: cho‧co

choco (feminine choca, masculine plural chocos, feminine plural chocas, metaphonic)

1. fertile (of an egg)
2. brooding (of a bird)
3. rotten (of an egg)
4. (figuratively) rotten, damaged
5. (figuratively) flat (of a carbonated drink)
6. (figuratively) dispirited, unenergetic, lethargic

   Synonym: chocho

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

• Rhymes: -ɔku
• Hyphenation: cho‧co

choco

1. first-person singular present indicative of chocar (“to brood”)
2. first-person singular present indicative of chocar (“to collide”)

• “choco”, in Dicionário Aulete Digital (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Lexikon Editora Digital, 2008–2026
• “choco”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2026

• IPA^(key): /ˈt͡ʃoko/ [ˈt͡ʃo.ko]
• Rhymes: -oko
• Syllabification: cho‧co

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

choco (feminine choca, masculine plural chocos, feminine plural chocas)

1. (Chile) with unclothed arms

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

choco m (plural chocos)

1. (Spain) any of a number of species of squid or cuttlefish

   Synonyms: sepia, jibia, cachón

2. (Chile) mullet (hairstyle)
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4. (colloquial, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras) a blind person

   Synonym: ciego

   Había un choco sentado afuera.

   There was a blind person sitting outside.

5. (Argentina, Cuyo region, Chile, Bolivia) dog

   ¿De quién es ese choco que anda suelto por ahí?

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choco (feminine choca, masculine plural chocos, feminine plural chocas)

1. (colloquial, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras) blind.

   Synonym: ciego

   Ella me vio con su ojo choco.

   She saw me with her blind eye

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

choco

1. first-person singular present indicative of chocar

• “choco”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8.1, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 15 December 2025