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- AU slang (possibly offensive) A person with medium-dark skin, such as from the Middle East.
- AU obsolete A militiaman or conscript, short for chocolate soldier.
#: 1942: Chocos with Hard Centres — Sydney Sun newspaper headline, 2 September 1942. Quoted by Sidney J. Baker, The Australian Language, second edition, 1966, chapter VIII section 3 (page 167).
Usage notes
The slang term for a dark skinned person may be used by such people themselves (the Australian television series w:Pizza (TV series)|Pizza made a good deal of fun with that for instance), but is generally considered racist when used otherwise.
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