mint chocolate chip

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Noun

mint chocolate chip (uncountable)

  2. A flavor (of ice cream, milk shake, etc) with a base tasting like spearmint or peppermint and with chocolate chips interspersed throughout that base.
    Synonyms: mint chip, mint 'n chip
    Coordinate term: chocolate chocolate chip
    • 2000, Jerry Traunfeld, The Herbfarm Cookbook, Scribner, →ISBN, page 406:
      As exemplified by a peppermint patty or a bowl of mint chocolate-chip ice cream, mint is the chocolate lover’s herb.
    • 2015, Jean Sagendorph, Jessie Sheehan, Icebox Cakes: Recipes for the Coolest Cakes in Town, San Francisco, Calif.: Chronicle Books, →ISBN, page 24:
      This cake is an ode to York Peppermint Patties, Andes Mints (swiped from your grandmother’s candy bowl), and mint–chocolate chip ice cream.
    • 2020, Marla Jo Fisher, Frumpy Middle-Aged Mom: Dispatches from the Front Lines of Motherhood, Prospect Park Books, →ISBN:
      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.
  3. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see mint,‎ chocolate chip.

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