choco

• IPA^(key): /ˈt͡ʃɒkəʊ/

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choco (plural chocos)

1. (Australia, slang) A person with dark skin tone.
2. (Australia, obsolete) A militiaman or conscript, short for chocolate soldier.
3. (Australia, slang) An army reservist.
   • 1942 September 2, Chocos with Hard Centres, in the Sydney Sun, quoted in 1966 by Sidney J. Baker in The Australian Language, second edition, chapter VIII, section 3, page 167

• 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

Debated. Perhaps from choca (“cowbell”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈt͡ʃɔko̝/

choco m (plural chocos)

1. cuttlefish

   Synonyms: chopo, sibia, xiba

Probably onomatopoeic, from *clocca, voice of a brood hen.[1]

• IPA^(key): /ˈt͡ʃoko̝/

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

1. broody
2. rotten
3. (of water) stagnant

• “choco” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006-2013.
• “choco” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
• “choco” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.

From chocar.

choco

1. First-person singular (eu) present indicative of chocar

From Latin cucullus (“hood”). Compare Spanish choco, Galician choco.

choco m (plural chocos)

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

   Synonyms: sépia, siba

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

1. (Chile) with unclothed arms

choco m (plural chocos)

1. cuttlefish

choco

1. First-person singular (yo) present indicative form of chocar.