mint chocolate chip en · NOUN
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(uncountable) A flavor typically used in ice cream and other desserts, consisting of a mint-flavored base, usually derived from peppermint or spearmint, embedded with small chocolate chips.
On the way home, we stopped at Rite Aid so the kids could get their double scoops, though once again they were out of mint chocolate chip.
2020, Marla Jo Fisher, Frumpy Middle-Aged Mom: Dispatches from the Front Lines of Motherhood, Prospect Park Books, →ISBN:As exemplified by a peppermint patty or a bowl of mint chocolate-chip ice cream, mint is the chocolate lover’s herb.
2000, Jerry Traunfeld, The Herbfarm Cookbook, Scribner, →ISBN, page 406:I glance over at the ice cream counter. “They don’t have peppermint,” I say. “They have mint chocolate chip,” says Dad. “Not the same,” I say. Olive looks at me sympathetically. I sit down and join the family ice cream table, ice-creamless.
2012, Melissa Walker, chapter 26, in Unbreak My Heart, New York, N.Y.: Bloomsbury Books for Young Readers, →ISBN, page 149:This cake is an ode to York Peppermint Patties, Andes Mints (swiped from your grandmother’s candy bowl), and mint–chocolate chip ice cream.
2015, Jean Sagendorph, Jessie Sheehan, Icebox Cakes: Recipes for the Coolest Cakes in Town, San Francisco, Calif.: Chronicle Books, →ISBN, page 24:
- (uncountable) Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see mint, chocolate chip.
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mint chip · mint 'n' chip · mint choc chip
Translations (4)
fi minttusuklaahippu (ice cream flavor) · ko 민트 초콜릿 칩 (ice cream flavor) · ja ミントチョコチップ (ice cream flavor) · fr menthe pépites de chocolat (ice cream flavor)