A head. Slang. Compare CALABASH. So the Italian zucca. (Battendosi la zucca: ‘Inferno,’ xviii. 124.)
1837. Your cocoa is very near a sledge-hammer. If it isn’t hard, it may get cracked.—J. C. Neal, ‘Charcoal Sketches,’ p. 37.
1854. Do you remember breaking an ear of corn, one night at a husking-bee, over the old ‘cocoa-nut’ of that ‘cross-patch,’ old J——?—Knick. Mag., xliii. 432 (April).
