mocha

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  1. noun A rich pungent Arabian coffee.
  2. noun Coffee of high quality.
  3. noun A coffee beverage flavored with milk, sugar, and cocoa.
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Examples (44)

  • Her lecture will teach you how to make espresso-based beverages like cappucino, mocha, and macchiato and how to brew coffee. —  PinoyCentric.com
  • The manager pumped a squirt of chocolate syrup for the mocha, and pulled a bottle of Redi-Whip from a refrigerated unit under the McCafe machine to top it off.
  • Talking about her StarBucks mocha -- she's mentioned her attachment to the company before, which doesn't exactly help her anti-elitist cred -- she quotes a line that just sounds obnoxious. —  Drudge Retort
  • I've recently discovered that coffee isn't the only thing out there that requires a tutorial on whether you'd prefer a latte ', mocha, mocha latte', mocha java, Chai, Espresso, —  Latest Articles
  • "But they need to understand whether a venti mocha is a need or a want." —  Kentucky.com: Homepage
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Etymologies (2)

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  1. After Mocha, a town of southwest Yemen.

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  1. from Mocha (see def.).
 

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/ˈmoʊkə/
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