Definition of "chocolate"

chocolate

/ˈt͡ʃɒk(ə)lɪt/

noun
countable and uncountable, plural chocolates
1. (chiefly uncountable) A food made from ground roasted cocoa beans.
2. (chiefly uncountable) A drink made by dissolving this food in boiling milk or water.
  Quotations
  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;...
  1837, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], “Another London Life”, in Ethel Churchill: Or, The Two Brides. […], volume I, London: Henry Colburn, […], page 168
3. (countable) A single, small piece of confectionery made from chocolate.
4. (uncountable) A dark, reddish-brown colour/color, like that of chocolate (also called chocolate brown).
5. (countable) A cat having a chocolate-colored coat.
6. (countable, slang) A black person; (uncountable) blackness.
  Quotations
  "I suppose you have some of your sweet chocolates working for you?" Barney nodded.
  1967, James David Horan, The Right Image: A Novel of the Men who Make Candidates, page 73
  I can consume as much of you as I want to without gaining weight. Sexy chocolate is what you are.
  2009, Evangeline Holloway, The Reincarnation of Love, page 83
  “How is my sexy chocolate?” Mark says on the other end.
  2011, Ella Campbell, Torn: The Melissa Williams Story, page 69
  “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.
  2012, Harry Davis, My Name Is Lucas
adjective
comparative more chocolate, superlative most chocolate
1. Made of or containing chocolate.
2. Having a dark reddish-brown colour/color.
3. (slang) Black (relating to any of various ethnic groups having dark pigmentation of the skin).
  Quotations
  She was a chocolate honey with all the assets necessary to never have to work hard to pay her bills.
  2005, Patrick Goines, Unfinished Business, page 29
  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.
  2010, Delores J. Dillard, Papua, New Guinea, 1983, page 27
  If you are as chocolate as an African queen, do you really think you'll look better as a bottle blonde?
  2011, Stephanie Stokes Oliver, Daily Cornbread, page 200
verb
third-person singular simple present chocolates, present participle chocolating, simple past and past participle chocolated
1. (transitive, rare, chiefly in the past participle) To add chocolate to; to cover (food) in chocolate.
2. (rare, biology) To treat blood agar by heating in order to lyse the red blood cells in the medium.
  Quotations
  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.
  1992 August, R. Rennie, “Laboratory and Clinical Evaluations of Media for the Primary Isolation of Haemophilus Species”, in Journal of Clinical Microbiology, volume 30, number 8, page 1917
  It is a chocolated blood agar but here whole horse blood is used.
  2000, Ochei Et Al, Medical Laboratory Science : Theory And Practice, page 843
  The mixture is incubated at 75°C until chocolating has taken place.
  2003, Mark A. Herbert, Haemophilus influenzae Protocols, page 73

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