Dictionary definition of “chocolate foot”

chocolate foot

n. the foot favored to use or to start with when running, biking, or kicking; one’s dominant foot. Subjects: English, Body, Sports & Recreation

Etymological Note: Perhaps a calque from the German Schokoladenbein ‘favored leg’ (literally ‘chocolate leg’). A similar German word is Schokoladenseite ‘attractive side’ (literally ‘chocolate side’).

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Citations: 1996 Hans Rey, Scott Martin Mountain Bike Magazine’s Complete Guide To Mountain Biking Skills (Feb. 15) p. 116: Keep your pedals horizontal, with your “chocolate foot” (your strongest foot) forward. 1999 [Klieg] Usenet: alt.mountain-bike (Mar. 19) “Re: Riding in Arizona”: Chicken Point has a sreaming single track descent off it that has a nasty habit of turning your chocolate foot into good because you are hardly pedaling, jsut keeping the pedals level and coasting at 30mph. 1999 Scottish Daily Record (Sept. 20) “Roddy gets it right with a bit of luck”: I turned inside a defender, created a bit of space and hit a shot with my chocolate foot, my right, and luckily it went in. 2002 John C. Usenet: rec.games.roguelike.adom (Dec. 29) “Re: Left-orium”: “There’s even something like a ‘dominant leg’! You automatically try to take off from that one if attempting to jump. Try. You’d be amazed. There’s a phrase for that in German: ‘Schokoladenbein.’” “Chocolate leg? I’m going to assume that something was lost in the translation here.” 2004 Leonard Zinn Zinn’s Cycling Primer (June 1) p. 34: The first thing you must know before hucking yourself off a drop-off is which foot is your “chocolate foot,” as Hans “No Way” Rey calls it. Your chocolate foot is your favorite foot, the one you always keep forward when standing on the petals.

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Reader comments:

I wish I would have known this word in when I played school sports. It would’ve got a good laugh.

by English Accent 10 Jul 07, 0503 GMT