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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Many Instagram followers cheered the bot on, with one posting “Go coco, go,” and others calling for someone to help the struggling robot.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 17, 2026
Blueberry bushes are grown inside them, taking root in coco coir - a coconut-based compost - imported from Sri Lanka.
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
“There’s a dude that sells coco helado right outside the park. That should prolly be our last stop.”
From "Watch Us Rise" by Renée Watson and Ellen Hagan
Tennis Association as well as brand-ambassador deals with star players Taylor Fritz and Coco Gauff.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 11, 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
The site once produced a million boxes of breakfast cereal a day, including Corn Flakes, Rice Krispies and Coco Pops.
From BBC ● Sep. 3, 2026
Rybakina can secure the number one ranking if her nearest rivals - Sabalenka, Jessica Pegula and Coco Gauff - do not win the title.
From BBC ● Aug. 30, 2026
Charlie and María come out carrying a few cans of something called Coco Rico.
From "Marcus Vega Doesn't Speak Spanish" by Pablo Cartaya
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
On the southern half of the eastern border, on the shore from Borongan by Lauang as far as Guiuan, there are considerable plantations of cocos, which are most imperfectly applied to the production of oil.
From The Former Philippines thru Foreign Eyes by Austin Craig
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