Coco
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Coco, CoCo, Co-Co or similar can mean:
  • Co-Co locomotives, a code for a locomotive wheel arrangement with two six-wheeled bogies with all axles powered, with a separate motor per axle
  • Co-Co (band)
    Co-Co (band)
    Co-Co were a five piece British band who represented the UK for the Eurovision Song Contest 1978, staged at the Palais de Congrès in Paris, France, on 22 April 1978, with the song, "The Bad Old Days". The song was written by the husband and wife team of Stephanie de Sykes and Stuart Slater...

    , a British pop group
  • Co-co! Magazine
    Co-co! Magazine
    Co-co! is a Hong Kong comic bi-weekly magazine that is launched in 1997. It features Japanese comics and local comics, it also provided information of gaming news....

    , a Hong Kong magazine
  • Abbreviation for "contingent convertibles", a convertible bond
    Convertible bond
    In finance, a convertible note is a type of bond that the holder can convert into shares of common stock in the issuing company or cash of equal value, at an agreed-upon price. It is a hybrid security with debt- and equity-like features...

     (financial)

Characters

  • Coco Bandicoot, from the video game series Crash Bandicoot
  • Coco, a character from the American cartoon series Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends
    Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends
    Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends is an American animated television series created and produced at Cartoon Network Studios by animator Craig McCracken, creator of The Powerpuff Girls. It first premiered on Cartoon Network on August 13, 2004, as a 90-minute television movie, which led to a series...


Music

  • Coco (album)
    Coco (album)
    Coco is the debut album by Colbie Caillat. The album was released on July 17, 2007 in the United States, debuting at #5 on the Billboard 200 and selling 51,000 copies in the first week. The album was certified 2x Platinum by the RIAA with shipments to U.S. retailers of 2,000,000 units...

    , by American singer/songwriter Colbie Caillat
  • CoCo (group)
    CoCo (group)
    CoCo was a Japanese pop group which consist of Mikiyo Ohno, Azusa Senou, Rieko Miura, Erika Haneda, and Maki Miyamae.CoCo released their first single on September 6, 1989. They debuted with "Equal Romance" and found themselves on the charts almost regularly...

    , a J-pop band
  • Coco (music)
    Coco (music)
    Coco is an African-influenced musical rhythm that originated in northern Brazil. "Coco" may also refer to the style of dance performed to the music, a kind of stomping....

    , a style of African-influenced music from northern Brazil
  • Coco (musical)
    Coco (musical)
    Coco is a musical with a book and lyrics by Alan Jay Lerner and music by André Previn. It starred Katharine Hepburn in her only stage musical.-Background:...

    , Broadway show based on the life of Coco Chanel
  • CocoRosie
    CocoRosie
    CocoRosie is a musical group formed in 2003 by sisters Bianca "Coco" and Sierra "Rosie" Casady. The sisters were born and raised in the United States, but formed the band in Paris after meeting for the first time in years...

    , American experimental band
  • Coco, an album by Parov Stelar
    Parov Stelar
    Parov Stelar aka Marcus Füreder is a musician who lives and works in Linz, Austria. He performs with his Band - the Parov Stelar Band - and as a DJ worldwide...


People

  • Coco the Clown, a name adopted by several clowns, but originally Nicolai Poliakoff (1900–1974)
  • Coco Chanel
    Coco Chanel
    Gabrielle Bonheur "Coco" Chanel was a pioneering French fashion designer whose modernist thought, menswear-inspired fashions, and pursuit of expensive simplicity made her an important figure in 20th-century fashion. She was the founder of one of the most famous fashion brands, Chanel...

     (1883–1971), French fashion designer
  • Coco Crisp
    Coco Crisp
    Covelli Loyce "Coco" Crisp is an American professional baseball center fielder. Crisp is a switch-hitter and throws right-handed...

     (born 1979), American baseball player
  • Coco Lee
    CoCo Lee
    Coco Lee , born on 17 January 1975, also known by her official English name as Ferren Lee, is a pop singer, songwriter, record producer and actress. Coco started her career in Hong Kong but, after becoming popular in Taiwan, she was widely considered to be a Taiwan artist. She was born to a Chinese...

     (born 1975), Chinese pop singer
  • Coco Robicheaux
    Coco Robicheaux
    Curtis John Arceneaux better known by the name Coco Robicheaux, was an American blues musician and artist, from Ascension Parish, Louisiana, United States.He was born in Merced, California...

     (born 1947), American blues musician
  • Coco Rocha
    Coco Rocha
    Coco Rocha is a Canadian fashion model.- Personal life :Rocha was born in Toronto, Ontario, and moved to Richmond and attended McRoberts secondary school, British Columbia at a very young age. Her family is in the airline industry. Her mother, Juanita, is a flight attendant and her father, Trevor...

     (born 1988), Canadian model
  • Nicole "Coco" Austin
    Nicole "Coco" Austin
    -External links:*...

     (born 1979), American model and wife of rapper Ice-T
  • Francesco Coco
    Francesco Coco
    Francesco Coco is a retired Italian football defender.-Club:Coco spent the majority of his club career with the Milan clubs; first with A.C. Milan between 1993 and 2002 and later with F.C. Internazionale between 2002 and 2007. He also had several loan spells with Vicenza Calcio, Torino F.C. and...

     (born 1977), Italian football player for Internazionale
  • Conan O'Brien
    Conan O'Brien
    Conan Christopher O'Brien is an American television host, comedian, writer, producer and performer. Since November 2010 he has hosted Conan, a late-night talk show that airs on the American cable television station TBS....

     (born 1963), American comedian, variety television show host
    • Team Coco, unofficial name for supporters of O'Brien during the 2010 Tonight Show conflict
      2010 Tonight Show conflict
      In early 2010, American television network NBC and two of its late-night talk show hosts, Conan O'Brien and Jay Leno, engaged in a media and public relations conflict over the host and airtime of The Tonight Show, the network's long-running late night program...

    • Team Coco, official name for the website and YouTube channel for O'Brien's talk show, Conan
  • Eliot Paulina Sumner (born 1990), English musician performing as Coco Sumner and I Blame Coco

Places

  • Coco Island (île aux Cocos), southernmost island of the Cargados Carajos Shoals
  • Coco River
    Coco River
    The Río Coco, formerly known as the Río Segovia, Cape River, or Yara River, is a river in southern Honduras and northern Nicaragua. To the Miskito Indians that live along the river it is known as the Wanki or Wanks River...

     (Río Coco), in southern Honduras and northern Nicaragua

Technology

  • Coco (robot)
    Coco (robot)
    Coco is the latest platform at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's Humanoid Robotics Group, and a successor to Cog. Unlike previous platforms, Coco is built along more ape-like lines, rather than human. Coco is also notable for being mobile....

    , a robot at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology
  • Coco/R
    Coco/R
    Coco/R is a compiler generator that takes an L-attributed Extended Backus–Naur Form grammar of a source language and generates a scanner and a parser for that language....

    , a compiler generator
  • TRS-80 Color Computer
    TRS-80 Color Computer
    The Radio Shack TRS-80 Color Computer was a home computer launched in 1980. It was one of the earliest of the first generation of computers marketed for home use in English-speaking markets...

    , Tandy Color Computer, nicknamed CoCo

Other uses

  • Coco (film)
    Coco (film)
    Coco is a 2009 French comedy film written, directed, and starring Gad Elmaleh. The film is based on a character sketch he created for his one-man show "La Vie Normale". The film earned $8.5 million in its opening weekend at the French box office, and went on to gross $11.7 million in the European...

    , a 2009 French film starring Gad Elmaleh
  • USS Coco (SP-110)
    USS Coco (SP-110)
    USS Coco was an armed motorboat that served in the United States Navy as a patrol vessel from 1917-1919.Coco was built as a civilian motorboat in 1917 by the Albany Boat Corporation at Watervliet, New York. The U.S. Navy acquired Coco from her owner, W.J. Matheson of Coconut Grove, Florida on 23...

    , a United States Navy patrol boat
  • Co-co! Magazine
    Co-co! Magazine
    Co-co! is a Hong Kong comic bi-weekly magazine that is launched in 1997. It features Japanese comics and local comics, it also provided information of gaming news....

    , a Hong Kong comic magazine
  • Zanthoxylum coco, the coco tree of South America
  • Coco Pops, an alternate name for Kellogg's Cocoa Krispies
    Cocoa Krispies
    Cocoa Krispies is a breakfast cereal produced by Kellogg's, coming both as a packet cereal and as a snack bar with a dried milk covered bottom to make the cereal-with-milk tradition portable. It is a cocoa-flavored version of Rice Krispies...

     breakfast cereal

See also

  • Coca (disambiguation)
    Coca (disambiguation)
    Coca may refer to:* The Coca plant , from which comes cocaine** Coca tea, a beverage made with coca** Coca eradication, a controversial part of the United States' War on Drugs policy** Cocawine, wine made with coca...

  • Cocoa (disambiguation)
    Cocoa (disambiguation)
    -Related to chocolate:*Theobroma cacao, the cocoa tree* Cocoa bean, seed of Theobroma cacao* Cocoa liquor or chocolate liquor, pure liquid chocolate extracted from the cocoa bean, including both cocoa butter and cocoa solids* Cocoa butter...

  • Cocos (disambiguation)
  • Coconut (disambiguation)
    Coconut (disambiguation)
    Coconut may refer to the coconut palm , or to its fruit or the seed within its fruit.Coconut may also refer to:* Coconut crab, the largest terrestrial arthropod in the world...

  • Cocoyam (disambiguation)
  • Koko (disambiguation)
  • Co-Co (disambiguation)
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