A type of chocolate or a chocolate-flavored item; also a regional term for cocoa in some Spanish-speaking areas.
From Spanish 'chocolate' or Portuguese 'chocolate,' shortened colloquially. This term appears in various European languages as a casual or regional variant for chocolate or cocoa.
The word 'chocolate' itself traveled from Nahuatl 'xocolatl' to Spanish to English, and 'choca' represents one of many regional shortcuts people created—language users are natural abbreviators!
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