choco

British

/ ˈtʃɒkəʊ /

noun

1. a member of the citizen army; militiaman
2. a conscript

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Etymology

Origin of choco

C20: shortened from chocolate soldier

Example Sentences

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Not in the mood to drop $100 on a dessert taco? if you're looking to satisfy your sweet taco cravings, check out this recipe for homemade choco tacos from Salon's Mary Elizabeth Williams.

From Salon • Oct. 4, 2022

Your choco melted long before your taco ever did.”

From New York Times • Jul. 27, 2022

Twitter user Michael Kang-Bietz jested that it was “pretty racist for klondike to discontinue the choco taco - the most perfect ice cream treat.”

From Washington Times • Jul. 26, 2022

He clutched a square of cardboard cut from a package of choco pie snack cakes on the back of which were written, in precise Armenian script, the phone numbers of several family members.

From Slate • Dec. 4, 2020

There, as I have shown, it probably indicates the Maya word choco, “heat, warmth,” alluding to the hot, dry season which parches and shrivels up the growing corn.

From Day Symbols of the Maya Year Sixteenth Annual Report of the Bureau of American Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1894-1895, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1897, pages 199-266. by Thomas, Cyrus

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