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chocolate

nounadjectiveverbcommon in dialogue

  • United Kingdom//ˈtʃɒk.(ə.)lət//

A food made from ground roasted cocoa beans.

noun

  1. 1

    A food made from ground roasted cocoa beans.

    Chocolate is a very popular treat.

    In eighteenth century France, many aphrodisiac dishes and pastries were compounded with chocolate.

  2. 2

    A drink made by dissolving this food in boiling milk or water.

    Chocolate came in those fairy cups of India china, which made the delight of our grandmothers, and whose value was such, that the poet satirist considered their loss to be the severest trial to a woman's feelings—alias her temper;...

  3. 3

    A single, small piece of confectionery made from chocolate.

    He bought her some chocolates as a gift. She ate one chocolate and threw the rest away.

    Madame de Pompadour was fond of chocolates spiced with vanilla and amber.

  4. 4

    A dark, reddish-brown colour/color, like that of chocolate (also called chocolate brown).

    As he cooked it the whole thing turned a rich, deep chocolate.

    A small boy clutching a Negro woman’s hand walked toward us. He looked all Negro to me: he was rich chocolate with flaring nostrils and beautiful teeth.

  5. 5

    A cat having a chocolate-colored coat.

  6. 6

    slangA black person.

    "I suppose you have some of your sweet chocolates working for you?" Barney nodded.

    “How is my sexy chocolate?” Mark says on the other end.

  7. 7

    slangA black person. Blackness.

    I can consume as much of you as I want to without gaining weight. Sexy chocolate is what you are.

    “Yes Lucas, you're some fine sexy chocolate”, she whispered, her long dark hair covering her face and the curves bursting out of her dress.

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish chocolate, from Classical Nahuatl chocolātl, of uncertain origin. See that entry for more information.

adjective

  1. 1

    Made of or containing chocolate.

  2. 2

    Having a dark reddish-brown colour/color.

  3. 3

    slangBlack (relating to any of various ethnic groups having dark pigmentation of the skin).

    She was a chocolate honey with all the assets necessary to never have to work hard to pay her bills.

    Therefore, African Americans complexion range from fair to mahogony. When a baby is born, it's always a mystery of the hue of the child. Sometimes the child will be as white as the slave owner or as chocolate as a great great grandparent.

    If you are as chocolate as an African queen, do you really think you'll look better as a bottle blonde?

verb

  1. 1

    rareTo add chocolate to; to cover (food) in chocolate.

  2. 2

    rareTo treat blood agar by heating in order to lyse the red blood cells in the medium.

    Other formulations have been adopted to supply these growth factors; these include heating or "chocolating" the blood agar to release NAD directly from the erythrocytes in the agar medium.

    It is a chocolated blood agar but here whole horse blood is used.

    The mixture is incubated at 75°C until chocolating has taken place.

Forms

plural
chocolates
comparative
more chocolate
superlative
most chocolate
past tense
chocolated
past participle
chocolated
present participle
chocolating
third person singular
chocolates
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Lexical content from Wiktionary, under CC BY-SA 4.0 · Source entry · Data version 2026-08-23

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