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Chocolate City

name

Etymology

From chocolate + city, in reference to the large African American population. Popularized in the 1970s and by the 1975 funk album Chocolate City by Parliament.

  1. derived from *ḱey-✻ — “lie down; settle”
  2. derived from civitas
  3. derived from citet
  4. inherited from cite
  5. compounded as chocolate city — “chocolate + city”

Definitions

  1. Nickname for Washington, D.C.

    Nickname for Washington, D.C.: the capital of the United States.

  2. A nickname for a city with a predominantly African American population.

  3. A city with a predominantly African American population.

    • There's a lot of chocolate cities around / We got Newark, we got Gary / Someone told me we got L.A. / And we're working on Atlanta / But you're the capital C.C.
    • When long-time residents from these areas leave or are forced out economically, what do they take with them? Can the culture of a chocolate city — its heritage and its heart — remain when its black residents have moved on?
  4. ›+ 1 more definition

    1. A city known for or associated with chocolate production.

      • Bruges is a chocolate city par excellence. The city has more than 50 passionate chocolatiers.

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA