choc

• Homophone: chock

Shortening.

choc (countable and uncountable, plural chocs)

1. (informal) chocolate
   • mint choc chip ice cream
   • a box of chocs

• choc ice

16th century, from choquer (“to hit, to shock”); influenced by Italian cicoco.

• IPA^(key): /ʃɔk/

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• Rhymes: -ɔk

choc m (plural chocs)

1. hit, strike
2. shock (surprise, startling)
3. clash

• choquer
• pare-choc

• IPA^(key): /tʃɔk/, /tʃɒk/

choc m (plural chocs)

1. (Louisiana) Alternative form of tchoque (“blackbird”)

• “choc” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

choc (plural chocs or choches)

1. shock

Borrowed from French choc.

choc m (invariable)

1. shock