Green’s Dictionary of Slang

(US) a derog. term for a black person.

1908		N.Y. Eve. Journal 27 Feb. in Fleming 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.
1924		G. Henderson Keys to Crookdom 402: Dinge. Negro, smoke, coon, chocolate baby.
1939		Howsley Argot: Dict. of Und. Sl. 13: chocolate baby – a colored girl, preferably negro.
1949		Monteleone Criminal Sl. (rev. edn) 50: chocolate baby A negro girl.

(US) a derog. term for a black person.

1971		(con. 1930s–50s) D. Wells Night People 117: Chocolate malt. A colored girl.
1975		A. Bleasdale Scully 179: What do they call a nigger at University? [...] A Chocolate Smartie. Get it?
1983		I.L. Allen 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.
1992		Bentley & Corbett Prison Sl. 55: Chocolate Bar A black person.

1. (US) a derog. term for a black person.

1970		D. Lebofsky Lex. of Phila. Metropolitan Area n.p.: Jungle bunny, chocolate bunny, burrhead, hardhead, hammerhead, rughead, nightfighter, spearchucker, hatchethead, rooster.
1972		B. Rodgers Queens’ Vernacular.
1984		W. Terry 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.

2012

‘Dutch’ ? (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.

1927		Emery Glen ‘Backdoor Blues’ 🎵 Sometimes these dreams just like bein’ awake; I saw another man eatin’ of my chocolate cake.
2001		D. Looser Boobslang [U. Canterbury D.Phil. thesis] 42/1: chocolate cake n. 1 a person with dark skin.

(N.Z. prison) the rectum.

2001

D. Looser Boobslang [U. Canterbury D.Phil. thesis] 42/1: chocolate canal n. the rectum.

(US black) a black man’s penis.

2020

D. Whish-Wilson 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].

1975		Parliament ‘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.
1989		G. Tate ‘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).
1993		R. Shell Iced 135: [Rap] was slowly catching on across the chocolate cities of the nation.
2002		‘Touré’ Portable Promised Land (ms.) 155: We Words (My Favorite Things) [...] New Jack City. Chocolate City. Soul City.
2013		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.
2019		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.

1983		G. Tate ‘King Sunny Adé’ in Flyboy in the Buttermilk (1992) 58: We don’t call D.C. Chocolate City for nothing.
1997		(con. 1970s) G. Pelecanos King Suckerman (1998) 11: ‘Washington, D.C.’ ‘Chocolate City?’ said Clagget.
2003		Simon & Burns ‘All Prologue’ Wire ser. 2 ep. 6 [TV script] How that DC? [...] Chocolate City. I ain’t been there for a while.
2008		S. Ferranti 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.

2002

‘Touré’ 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.

1900		E.H. Babbitt ‘College Words and Phrases’ in DN II:i 27: chocolate-drop, n. A young negress.
1907		Rogers & Cook ‘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’.
1922		M.E. Smith Adventures of a Boomer Op. 41: ‘Say, look here old Chocolate Drop,’ says Red, ‘why all this glee stuff.’ ‘Nothin’ sah. Skue me sah.’.
1928		N.I. White Amer. Negro Folk-Songs 354: [reported from Auburn, Ala., 1915-1916] Long, tall, slim chocolate drop, / She’s on de road somewhere.
1930		J.W. Johnson Black Manhattan 107: Many of the most popular of the Williams and Walker songs; among them [...] ‘Bon Bon Buddy, the Chocolate Drop’.
1937		C. Odets Golden Boy I i: Do you think your Mr. Kaplan can go ten rounds with the Baltimore Chocolate Drop.
1941		C.S. Johnson 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’.
1949		Monteleone Criminal Sl. (rev. edn).
1953		W. Eyster 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.
1960, 1975		Wentworth & Flexner DAS.

(US) one who prefers black sexual partners, whether hetero- or homosexual.

1972

B. Rodgers 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.

2012

(con. 1943) G.S. Manson Coorparoo Blues [ebook] ‘Need a bit of chocolate milk, do ya?’.

(S.Afr. gay) a white homosexual who prefers black sexual partners.

2003

K. Cage Gayle.

three-way sex performed by one black man and two white women.

1999

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.

1994

C. Major 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).

(US black) very dark-skinned.

1925		Odum & Johnson 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.
1931		N. Van Patten ‘Vocab. of the Amer. Negro’ in AS VII:1 27: chocolate-to-the-bone. W. n. A very black Negro.
1958		Hughes & Bontemps Book of Negro Folklore 383: The gal I love is choklit to de bone.

a male homosexual.

1988

J. McDonald Dict. of Obscenity etc. 151: Turd burglar [...] Less explicit examples are chocolate bandit and chutney ferret.

(US) homosexual anal intercourse.

2001

J. Stahl 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).

1999

G. Seal 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.

1985		B. Humphries Traveller’s Tool 21: It’s a walk-up start he dances the chocolate cha-cha.
1997–2002		Alt. Eng. Dict. 🌐 chocolate cha cha Have anal intercourse.
2002		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.

1997

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.

1959		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.
1989		J. Morton Lowspeak 38: Chocolate freeway – the anus.
1989–2003		R.O. Scott Gay Sl. Dict. 🌐 chocolate speedway.
1993–2003		Urban Dict. 🌐 chocolate freeway The bowel. Specifically with reference to sodomy. A homosexual enjoys a ride down the ‘chocolate freeway’.
1997		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).
2001		OnLine Dict. of Playground Sl. 🌐 chocolate speedway n. anal intercourse usu. between two males.
2003		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.

1974–5		B. Humphries 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.
1999		G. Seal 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.

1993–2003

Uncle Super Schlong on Urban Dict. 🌐 chocolate runway where david likes victoria to shove her fist.

the anus.

1997		Roger’s Profanisaurus in Viz 87 Dec. n.p.: chocolate starfish n. See chocolate eye, speedway, etc.
2002		S. Maloney Something Fishy (2006) 63: Tonight the bands were called Chocolate Starfish [and] Bumcrack.
2003		Eble Campus Sl. Nov.

(drugs) LSD.

1977		L. Young et al. Recreational Drugs.
1982		AS LVII:4 289: When LSD is mixed with other drugs [...] [s]uch mixtures are today called [...] chocolate chip.
2001		ONDCP Street Terms 6: Chocolate chips — LSD.

1. a dark substance that is produced in the pipe during the smoking of crack cocaine.

1992

T. Williams 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.

2001

ONDCP Street Terms 6: Chocolate rock — Crack smoked together with heroin.

1. opium.

1955		H. Braddy ‘Narcotic Argot Along the Mexican Border’ in AS XXX:2 87: chocolate, n. Opium (from its brown color).
2001		ONDCP Street Terms 6: Chocolate — Marijuana; opium; amphetamine.

2. heroin, usu. that manufactured in Mexico.

1992

Bentley & Corbett Prison Sl. 69: Chocolate Stuff also Chocolate Mexican heroin. [...] prevalent in prison.

3. hashish.

1978		Dennis & Barry Marijuana Catalogue.
2007		UGK ‘Swisha And Dosha’ 🎵 Smokin on this chocolate, my neck be sittin so sparkling.