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chocolate chip cookie

chocolate chip cookie

23 1.0
A flat sweet baked biscuit with small pieces of chocolate
  • noun
  • /ˈtʃɔkəlɪt tʃɪp ˈkʊki/
translation icon : galleta con chispas de chocolate
  • I got chocolate chip cookies three ways.
  • bake chocolate chip cookies
  • chocolate chip cookie dough
  • homemade chocolate chip cookies

I love eating when I'm stressed, but my number one is chocolate chip cookies.

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Examples

  • Mom reached into the cookie jar where she always kept chocolate chip cookies, her family's favorite.

    Fiction book (1997)
  • I thought you love chocolate chip cookies.

  • I used to make you those chocolate chip cookies?

  • So how do you feel about chocolate chip cookies?

  • And I might have some chocolate chip cookies.

  • Maybe we'll get some nice big chocolate chip cookies.

  • And tell Jimmy I want 10 chocolate chip cookies, all right?

  • I looked in at a huge pile of chocolate-chip cookies, brown and fresh like I had never seen before.

    Fiction book (1994)
  • And who doesn't love the occasional chocolate chip cookie, warm from the oven?

    Blog text (1)
  • Would you like to try one of my chocolate chip cookies?

Synonyms

cookie
vschocolate chip cookie
  • US
774 1.0

A small flat sweet baked treat often with chocolate chips or nuts

is a specific variety defined by containing small sweet pieces
Toll House cookie
vschocolate chip cookie
  • US
1 2.7

A cookie with chocolate chips made from the original Toll House recipe

is a general flat sweet baked item rather than a named variety

How Solid

chocolate chip cookie
23 1.0
chocolate liquor
  • Specialized
1 3.5

Surface Forms

Morphology

chocolate + chips + cookie

The meaning 'a cookie containing small pieces of chocolate' is directly and transparently derived from combining 'chocolate' (the ingredient) with 'chip' (a small piece) modifying 'cookie' (a baked sweet). This simple noun–noun composition is cross-linguistically common and readily inferable by a B1 learner who knows the constituent words.

Etymology

The name chocolate chip cookie comes from a kitchen story: a baker mixed small bits of chocolate into cookie dough and the bits stayed as little chips instead of melting. So today chocolate chip cookie means a 'sweet' cookie with small pieces of chocolate inside.