Jump To:

• koko
  koko

  noun

  lebbek.
• Koko
  Koko

  noun

  a female western lowland gorilla, born in 1971 at the San Francisco Zoo in California and trained to communicate with humans by means of a sign language.

koko

¹ American  

[koh-koh] / ˈkoʊ koʊ /

noun

• kokos
  plural

1. lebbek.

---

Koko ² American  

[koh-koh] / ˈkoʊ koʊ /

noun

1. a female western lowland gorilla, born in 1971 at the San Francisco Zoo in California and trained to communicate with humans by means of a sign language.

---

Other Word Forms

Noun Inflected Forms

• kokos
  plural

Etymology

Origin of koko

First recorded in 1860–65; variant of kokko, of uncertain origin

Example Sentences

See Examples For:

koko Koko kokos

In high tones, koko means a hard lump of flesh.

From Economist ● Feb. 1, 2018

If he happens to be guilty of anything and says he isn’t and cuts the fowl’s koko off,––he is sure to die for his prevarication.

From The Spoilers of the Valley by Robert Watson

In theatrical circles they call him the impresario with the sawdust koko and the split-second appetite.

From Get Next! by Hugh McHugh

It was a punky lid, all right, but it had saved a lot of wear on his koko when he made that slide for home plate and struck the wall.

From Shorty McCabe by F. Vaux (Francis Vaux) Wilson

Among the Nipissing Algonkian Indians, koko is a child-word for any terrible being; the mothers say to their children, "beware of the koko."

From The Child and Childhood in Folk-Thought Studies of the Activities and Influences of the Child Among Primitive Peoples, Their Analogues and Survivals in the Civilization of To-Day by Alexander F. Chamberlain

The Kenyan clean cookstove project developer Koko Networks went bankrupt at the end of January, in part because it failed to negotiate a letter of authorization with the government.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 23, 2026

The R&B and soul artist from Smethwick, near Birmingham, was soon put forward for a music programme which culminated in a performance at the iconic Koko concert venue in Camden, London.

From BBC ● Jan. 20, 2025

“Hiroshima’s atomic bomb changed Koko Kondo’s life, but so did meeting the man who dropped it,” ABC Australia, Aug. 6, 2020.

From Slate ● Oct. 6, 2023

For Koko Da Doll, it was the solution to getting herself, and her homeless mother and sister, off the streets of Atlanta.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 4, 2023

The second she walked in, Koko called out to her.

From "Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood" by Trevor Noah

Next to sweet-potatoes, the premier abomination to walk through, give me kokos for good all-round tryingness, particularly when they are wet, as is very much the case now. 

From Travels in West Africa by Mary H. Kingsley

All we can see, as we first turn up the path, is a patch of kokos of tremendous size on our right. 

From Travels in West Africa by Mary H. Kingsley