cocoa n.1
1. (US) a derog. term for a black person, esp. light-skinned.
![[UK]](/static/img/flags/uk.png "United Kingdom") | Foetal Attraction (1994) 203: Maybe I’ll have a black man. Never done that before. Yes, it’s time I opted for a bit of cocoa. |
2. (N.Z. prison) a member of the King Cobra gang.
![[NZ]](/static/img/flags/nz.png "New Zealand") | Boobslang [U. Canterbury D.Phil. thesis] 45/1: cocoa n. a derogatory term for a King Cobra gang-member. |
SE in slang uses
In compounds
(W.I., Trin.) a mixed-race person who retains traces of Spanish ancestry and culture.
![[WI]](/static/img/flags/wi.png "West Indies") | cited in Dict. Carib. Eng. Usage (1996). | |
![[US]](/static/img/flags/us.png "United States") | This Is How You Lose Her 39: She was from Trinidad, a cocoa pañyol. |
newspapers, e.g. The Daily News, owned by the chocolate-making Cadbury family.
![[Aus]](/static/img/flags/aus.png "Australia") | Bulletin (Sydney) 18 Jul. 36/3: The ‘cocoa press’ of England, controlled in the Radical-Wowser interest by Cadbury, who makes chocolate creams in the intervals between addressing Christian Endeavor conferences and peaching the Quaker doctrine of non-resistance, has made a bid for top place in the newspaper world. |
(drugs) to smoke cocaine mixed with marijuana; thus as n., a marijuana cigarette laced with cocaine.
| et al. Dict. of Today’s Words. | |
| ONDCP Street Terms 6: Cocoa puff — To smoke cocaine and marijuana. |
a male homosexual.
 | Brass Eye Episode 6 ‘Moral Decline’ 5 Mar. 🌐 He’s taken up enough of this show already and he hasn’t even opened his mouth, god knows why he’s here, I’ve nothing to ask the guy, and er for all I know he may well be a bit of a cocoa shunter too. |