coco
noun
coco
1 American
[koh-koh]
/ ˈkoʊ koʊ /
Coco
2
American
[koh-koh, kaw-kaw]
/ ˈkoʊ koʊ, ˈkɔ kɔ /
noun
coco
British
/ ˈkəʊkəʊ /
noun
Other Word Forms
Noun Inflected Forms
Etymology
Origin of coco
1545–55; < Portuguese: grimace; the three holes at the nut's base give it this appearance
Example Sentences
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And as soon as the sun rises, there should be mangoes waiting for them underneath the coco tree.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 4, 2023
But pots and imported coco coir on their own did not solve the challenge of introducing a northern hemisphere fruit into Peru's hot and arid coastal region.
From BBC ● Apr. 26, 2023
It's just basically putting condensed milk and usually just some cream-based type of milky liquid, and also just all these canned cocktail fruit, just the jellies that we were talking about, nata de coco.
From Salon ● Mar. 7, 2023
I wanted coconut drops, a spicy beef patty with coco bread, kola champagne, and some bun and cheese for later.
From Washington Post ● Apr. 27, 2022
We’re on the way back to school on Amsterdam Avenue, having crossed over for the famous coco helado.
From "Watch Us Rise" by Renée Watson and Ellen Hagan
“We just don’t have the drivers,” said Michael Kirban, co-founder of coconut-water maker Vita Coco, which outsources its U.S. domestic logistics.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 26, 2026
Alongside scenes that feature car wheels, sports jerseys and horse racing, he’s created rich still lifes with Hispanic household staples like Goya cans, Coco Rico soda and bottles of Fabuloso.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 25, 2026
The paintings retrieved include "Madame Pichon" and "Coco lisant", a portrait of Renoir's young son Claude reading.
From Barron's ● Sep. 8, 2026
"I definitely think it's cool to have a new demographic and I definitely think it helps grow the sport," world number four Coco Gauff said.
From BBC ● Sep. 4, 2026
"Madame Coco Chocolata will see you now!" he announced in a deep voice.
From "Case of the Sneaky Snowman: Nancy Drew and the Clue Crew, #5" by Carolyn Keene
His modern vino de cocos may not exactly be the sort of spirit you’d want to sip at leisure, like mezcal or tequila.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 24, 2026
Cohen & Steers’ Cordes also sees better value in the institutional preferreds, especially what are known as contingent capital securities, or cocos.
From Barron's ● Dec. 4, 2025
The hullabaloo at Deutsche, along with the poor performance of European banks more broadly, seems to have prompted a broader reassessment of the riskiness of cocos, argues James Chappell of Berenberg, a bank.
From Economist ● Feb. 11, 2016
Among his favorite investments are convertible contingent bonds, or cocos.
From New York Times ● Jun. 16, 2015
Their fruits be divers and plentiful; as nutmegs, ginger, long pepper, lemons, cucumbers, cocos, figu, sagu, with divers other sorts.
From Sir Francis Drake's Famous Voyage Round the World by Francis Pretty
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