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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Instagram followers cheered the bot on, with one posting, “Go coco, go,” and others calling for someone to help the robot.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 28, 2026
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
“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
We only know them through the prism of men: Jane lusts after Yoga Dude, Coco rages at Roger, Sophie is bullied by her boss.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 21, 2026
Joining Lenglen in the first is Coco Gauff, whose 2025 Wimbledon kit featured a pleated skirt and a corset-shaped top made of performance material—“the perfect harmony of heritage and modernity,” Ms. Kumar Nair writes.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 21, 2026
See: Coco Gauff was asked if she’ll use her $3 million US Open winnings to pay off debt.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 29, 2026
"He was the greatest dad and he was everybody's favourite grandad, but especially to India, Jude, Cass and Coco who adored him," she added, referring to her four children.
From BBC ● Jul. 22, 2026
A few other people I don’t know stand around, drinking cans of Coco Frio and mingling.
From "Marcus Vega Doesn't Speak Spanish" by Pablo Cartaya
For its fruit, of course, with its prime role in snacks like cocos preparados or in rich guisados and seafood dishes that are known along the whole Pacific coast.
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 irony is that even those shunning Deutsche’s cocos accept that its cushion of capital is relatively thick, at 11%.
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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