Meanings
- uncountableA 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.
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 4063 more examples
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 149This 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 24On 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, →ISBNSynonyms: mint chip, mint choc chip, mint 'n' chip
- uncountableUsed other than figuratively or idiomatically: see mint, chocolate chip.
Synonyms & antonyms
nounA 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.
Translations
Finnish minttusuklaahippu
- minttusuklaahippuice cream flavor
French menthe pépites de chocolat
- menthe pépites de chocolatice cream flavor
Japanese ミントチョコチップ
- ミントチョコチップ (minto choko chippu)ice cream flavor
Korean 민트 초콜릿 칩
- 민트 초콜릿 칩 (minteu chokollit chip)ice cream flavor
Cite this entry
mint chocolate chip. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/mint%20chocolate%20chip
“mint chocolate chip.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/mint%20chocolate%20chip. Accessed November 4, 2026.
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “mint chocolate chip,” accessed November 4, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/mint%20chocolate%20chip.
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