chocolate adj.
1. (also chock) used derog. in ref. to a black person, unless used by a black person.
 | Anti-Slavery Bugle (New-Lisobon, OH) 5 June 1/3: A few more years of ‘philanthropy’ will render him an excellent ‘colored’ gentleman, and Ohio will exalt in a chocolate-hued Representative. | |
![[Aus]](/static/img/flags/aus.png "Australia") | Bulletin (Sydney) 5 Oct. 14/1: Ginger’s dorter / Fiery tart, / Reg’lar snorter, / Broke me heart. // Spliced – instructions – / Lack-a-day! / Naggin’ – ructions – / Got away. / Steer me wide o’ / Such a shroo; / Good off-sider / Old black Loo. / [...] / Kiddies rather / Choco-late, / Call me father, / ’T any rate. | |
| Salt Lake Tribune(UT) 3 Dec. 31/3: There will be no more dark meat in the ring for there is nobody of the chocolate persuason in saght. | |
![[US]](/static/img/flags/us.png "United States") | [song title] My Sugar-Coated Chocolate Boy. | |
| Broadway Brevities Aug. 22/2: The Earl Carroll Funeral Theatre [...] opened the wings for ‘Strut Miss Lizzie’ a chocolate adumbration imported from the Times Square. | |
| Jim Jam Jems Feb. n.p.: Harlem’s chocolate hordes are wiping off their chins for a night amid the effervescences of the Black Belt. | |
| ‘Brown Gal’ 🎵 Hmmm, brown gal, / Chocolate gal. | |
| Tambourines to Glory I vi: Chocolate daddy with coconut eyes! | |
| Out of the Burning (1961) 142: You boys know where we can get some nice chocolate tootsie rolls? | |
| Deep Down In The Jungle 160: So I was walking down Rampail Street, / When two chock whores I chanced to meet. | |
| Vulture (1996) 24: Her nicely built chocolate frame rubbed a part of me that I like to have rubbed. | |
| Central Sl. 15: chocolate stick A black man’s penis. ‘I tricked with a dude, had a nice chocolate stick.’. | |
![[SA]](/static/img/flags/sa.png "South Africa") | ‘Boo to the Moon’ in Mooi Street (1994) 134: We racist pigs. We practise chocolate fucken genocide. | |
| ‘Cool vs. Chilly’ in Buppies, B-Boys, Baps and Bohos (1994) 71: Chocolate love men like Big Daddy Kane and Wesley Snipes. | |
| CNN-TV 17 Jan. [TV] Mayor Ray Nagin on Monday called for the rebuilding of a ‘chocolate New Orleans’ that maintains the city’s black majority, saying, ‘You can’t have New Orleans no other way. [...] I don’t care what people are saying Uptown or wherever they are. This city will be chocolate at the end of the day.’. | |
| ‘Grip & Ride’ 🎵 Chocolate darling passes says she like the way that I’m boppin’. |
2. pertaining to the anus, to defecation and, by ext. to homosexuality; in combs. below.
Pertaining to race
In compounds
(US) a derog. term for a black person.
| N.Y. Eve. Journal 27 Feb. in Unforgettable Season (1981) 23: The pushball was of infinite interest to the spectators, especially the ‘chocolate babies’ delegation, the darkies rolling over and over [...] in paroxysms of laughter. | |
| Keys to Crookdom 402: Dinge. Negro, smoke, coon, chocolate baby. | |
| Argot: Dict. of Und. Sl. 13: chocolate baby – a colored girl, preferably negro. | |
| Criminal Sl. (rev. edn) 50: chocolate baby A negro girl. |
(US) a derog. term for a black person.
| (con. 1930s–50s) Night People 117: Chocolate malt. A colored girl. | |
![[UK]](/static/img/flags/uk.png "United Kingdom") | Scully 179: What do they call a nigger at University? [...] A Chocolate Smartie. Get it? | |
| Lang. of Ethnic Conflict 46: Color Allusions, Other than ‘Black’ and ‘Negro’: chocolate [...] Other variants are recent and probably ephemeral college slang [...]: chocolate-bar, chocolate-chip, etc., and fudgy, hershey-bar, tootsie-roll, etc. | |
| Prison Sl. 55: Chocolate Bar A black person. |
1. (US) a derog. term for a black person.
| Lex. of Phila. Metropolitan Area n.p.: Jungle bunny, chocolate bunny, burrhead, hardhead, hammerhead, rughead, nightfighter, spearchucker, hatchethead, rooster. | |
| Queens’ Vernacular. | |
| Bloods (1985) 5: We had a Southerner from Arkansas that liked to call you chocolate bunny and Brillo head. That kind of shit. |
2. an attractive black female.
| ? (Pronounced Que) [ebook] ‘Drama, where you goin’?’ the chocolate bunny on the bed whined. Her dark, naked skin tone glistened. |
(N.Z. prison/US black) a black or brown individual.
| ‘Backdoor Blues’ 🎵 Sometimes these dreams just like bein’ awake; I saw another man eatin’ of my chocolate cake. | |
![[NZ]](/static/img/flags/nz.png "New Zealand") | Boobslang [U. Canterbury D.Phil. thesis] 42/1: chocolate cake n. 1 a person with dark skin. |
(N.Z. prison) the rectum.
| Boobslang [U. Canterbury D.Phil. thesis] 42/1: chocolate canal n. the rectum. |
(US black) a black man’s penis.
| Shore Leave 82: They [i.e. Aus. girls] so desperate for some chocolate candy bar. |
1. (US) a black ghetto, any concentration of blacks [coined by George Clinton, founder of the funk band Parliament-Funkadelic].
| ‘Chocolate City’ 🎵 There are a lot of chocolate cities around / We got Newark, we got Gary / Somebody told me we got L.A. / And we’re workin’ on Atlanta. | |
| ‘The GOP Throws a Mammy-Jammy’ in Flyboy in the Buttermilk (1992) 103: A young James Brown (ripping up the stage with more manic energy than a chocolate city on gooberdust). | |
| Iced 135: [Rap] was slowly catching on across the chocolate cities of the nation. | |
| Portable Promised Land (ms.) 155: We Words (My Favorite Things) [...] New Jack City. Chocolate City. Soul City. | |
| NPR 17 Apr. 🌐 [of Oakland, CA] The Chocolate City notion — gone, gone, gone [...] There are multiple cultures: chocolate, Vietnamese, you can’t even say Hispanic anymore, it’s Mexican and Salvadoran, Nicaraguan. | |
| crimereads.com 20 Feb. 🌐 [Chester] Himes never lived in Harlem, but that didn’t stop him from using the chocolate city within New York City as the backdrop. |
2. (US black) Washington D.C.
| ‘King Sunny Adé’ in Flyboy in the Buttermilk (1992) 58: We don’t call D.C. Chocolate City for nothing. | |
| (con. 1970s) King Suckerman (1998) 11: ‘Washington, D.C.’ ‘Chocolate City?’ said Clagget. | |
| ‘All Prologue’ Wire ser. 2 ep. 6 [TV script] How that DC? [...] Chocolate City. I ain’t been there for a while. | |
| Street Legends n.p.: Wayune ‘Silk’ Perry was the most dangerous gangster ever to walk the streets of Washington, D.C. [...] In Chocolate City it was by any means necessary and Silk took this attitude to new extremes. |
(US black teen) an attractive, sexy, dark-complexioned black woman.
| Portable Promised Land (ms.) 151: We Words (My Favorite Things) [...] Redbone. Hi-Yella. French vanilla. Butter pecan. Chocolate deluxe. Caramel sundae. |
a black person, usu. derog.
| ‘College Words and Phrases’ in DN II:i 27: chocolate-drop, n. A young negress. | |
| ‘BonBon Buddy’ lyrics] When I was a tiny pick, say just about so years old / The folks nick named me ‘Buddy’ that is so I have been told / I spent most of my younger days with gran’mom and gran’pop / And gran’ma always used to call me ‘Granny’s choc’late drop’. | |
| Adventures of a Boomer Op. 41: ‘Say, look here old Chocolate Drop,’ says Red, ‘why all this glee stuff.’ ‘Nothin’ sah. Skue me sah.’. | |
| Amer. Negro Folk-Songs 354: [reported from Auburn, Ala., 1915-1916] Long, tall, slim chocolate drop, / She’s on de road somewhere. | |
| Black Manhattan 107: Many of the most popular of the Williams and Walker songs; among them [...] ‘Bon Bon Buddy, the Chocolate Drop’. | |
| Golden Boy I i: Do you think your Mr. Kaplan can go ten rounds with the Baltimore Chocolate Drop. | |
| Growing Up in the Black Belt 297: ‘I’ve had white children meddle me. They call me ’little black nigger’ and ’chocolate drop’ and things like that’. | |
| Criminal Sl. (rev. edn). | |
| Far from the Customary Skies 61: I figure the last night ashore oughta be something worth remembering [...] A real blowout, not a mugging party with a chocolate drop. | |
| , | | DAS. |
(US) one who prefers black sexual partners, whether hetero- or homosexual.
| Queens’ Vernacular 63: dinge queen [white] white homosexual who prefers black men sexually [...] Syn: Beulah-lover (black gay sl); chocolate lover. |
see chocolate bar
(Aus.) a mixed race woman.
| (con. 1943) Coorparoo Blues [ebook] ‘Need a bit of chocolate milk, do ya?’. |
(S.Afr. gay) a white homosexual who prefers black sexual partners.
| Gayle. |
three-way sex performed by one black man and two white women.
| Roger’s Profanisaurus 3 in Viz 98 Oct. 7: chocolate sandwich n. A sexual act performed in the presence of Arthur Lowe, involving a black man and two white lady strippers. |
see chocolate bar
(US black) any black basketball player.
| Juba to Jive 94: Chocolate thunder [1980s–1990s] n. any black basketball player. Obvious color association. May or may not be originally associated with ‘chocolate soldier’ (children’s candy). |
In phrases
(US black) very dark-skinned.
| Negro and His Songs (1964) 160: If I git drunk who’s goin’ ter carry me home? / Brown-skin woman, she chocolate to de bone. | |
| ‘Vocab. of the Amer. Negro’ in AS VII:1 27: chocolate-to-the-bone. W. n. A very black Negro. | |
| Book of Negro Folklore 383: The gal I love is choklit to de bone. |
Pertaining to the anus and/or excrement
In compounds
a male homosexual.
| Dict. of Obscenity etc. 151: Turd burglar [...] Less explicit examples are chocolate bandit and chutney ferret. |
(US) homosexual anal intercourse.
| Plainclothes Naked (2002) 105: Little Mac [...] A straight fruitbat. Lure some shlub who wanted chocolate cake into a dark corner, then turn round, clock him and cop his wallet. |
the anus; thus ride the chocolate canyon, to have anal intercourse (usu. in homosexual context).
| Lingo 115: Related usages are to ride the tan track; dirt-track rider; ride the chocolate canyon, and to drill for vegemite. |
(Aus./US) anal intercourse; thus dance the chocolate cha-cha.
| Traveller’s Tool 21: It’s a walk-up start he dances the chocolate cha-cha. | |
| Alt. Eng. Dict. 🌐 chocolate cha cha Have anal intercourse. | |
| I-94Bar 3:11 🌐 These three Melbournites [...] would have it that life’s a dance and the name of that dance is the Chocolate Cha-Cha (if ya get my drift). |
one who performs anal intercourse.
| Roger’s Profanisaurus in Viz 87 Dec. n.p.: chocolate chimney sweep euph. He who applies his purple headed womb broom (qv) to dirtier duties. |
(US) the rectum or anus; thus cruise the chocolate highway, ride the chocolate freeway, to have anal intercourse.
| Goon Show ser. 9 ep. 11 ‘The Spy or Who Is Pink Oboe’ 12 Jan. [radio script] Here are the code-names [...] the Vermillion Sock, the Vermillion Ponk, the Chocolate Speedway and the White Bint. | |
| Lowspeak 38: Chocolate freeway – the anus. | |
| Gay Sl. Dict. 🌐 chocolate speedway. | |
| Urban Dict. 🌐 chocolate freeway The bowel. Specifically with reference to sodomy. A homosexual enjoys a ride down the ‘chocolate freeway’. | |
| Roger’s Profanisaurus in Viz 87 Dec. n.p.: chocolate speedway also chocolate whizzway n. Bumhole; poop chute. [Ibid.] n.p.: chocolate speedway rider n. Botter (qv). | |
| OnLine Dict. of Playground Sl. 🌐 chocolate speedway n. anal intercourse usu. between two males. | |
| Brains Trust III:53 🌐 I’ve shagged loads of birds, I even did Una Stubbs up the chocolate whizzway, when we was filming Summer Holiday, that’s why she won’t go on buses anymore. |
(Aus.) a male homosexual.
| Barry McKenzie [comic strip] in Complete Barry McKenzie (1988) 122: If mum’s ratbag enough to marry a chocolate-puncher, I’ll need a skinful to get em to the church. | |
| Lingo 115: This hardly exhausts the terms used to describe homosexuals in Lingo, all of which are unrelievedly pejorative and include, but are not restricted to: [...] doughnut-puncher; freckle-puncher; chocolate-puncher [...] and fag. |
the anus.
| on Urban Dict. 🌐 chocolate runway where david likes victoria to shove her fist. |
the anus.
| Roger’s Profanisaurus in Viz 87 Dec. n.p.: chocolate starfish n. See chocolate eye, speedway, etc. | |
| Something Fishy (2006) 63: Tonight the bands were called Chocolate Starfish [and] Bumcrack. | |
| Campus Sl. Nov. |
General uses
In compounds
(drugs) LSD.
| et al. Recreational Drugs. | |
| AS LVII:4 289: When LSD is mixed with other drugs [...] [s]uch mixtures are today called [...] chocolate chip. | |
| ONDCP Street Terms 6: Chocolate chips — LSD. |
1. a dark substance that is produced in the pipe during the smoking of crack cocaine.
| Crackhouse 147: chocolate rock – mixture of white freebase and the dark residue scraped from the pipe. |
2. crack cocaine and heroin smoked at the same time.
| ONDCP Street Terms 6: Chocolate rock — Crack smoked together with heroin. |
1. opium.
| ‘Narcotic Argot Along the Mexican Border’ in AS XXX:2 87: chocolate, n. Opium (from its brown color). | |
| ONDCP Street Terms 6: Chocolate — Marijuana; opium; amphetamine. |
2. heroin, usu. that manufactured in Mexico.
| Prison Sl. 69: Chocolate Stuff also Chocolate Mexican heroin. [...] prevalent in prison. |
3. hashish.
| Marijuana Catalogue. | |
| ‘Swisha And Dosha’ 🎵 Smokin on this chocolate, my neck be sittin so sparkling. |