Chocko

Chocko

Chocko is a colloquial term for persons of Southern European, Arabic and Southern Asian descent living in Australia. As a term for the Ethnic Australian culture, it was popularised by the Australian television show, Pizza, whose mainly Southern European-Australian or Lebanese-Australian cast affectionately referred themselves as "chockos".Fact|date=August 2007

The term is a shortened form of "chocolate frog", which rhymes with "wog" - a politically incorrect reference to someone of Mediterranean descent. An alternative Aussie rhyming slang equivalent is "freddo", which is a side reference to the chocolate candy called a Freddo Frog.

"Chocko" is also an archaic term referring to an Australian Reserve Army soldier, and is short for "Chocolate soldier".

It is often used in the masculine and neuter.

ee also

*Wog
*Leb
*Anglo-Celtic


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