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doc

certified origin (label)

adjective dok Rare
Food & Drink Ingredients

Origin: From Italian denominazione di origine controllata (DOC), a quality-certification system for food and wine.

Also means

top-quality

Usage Note

Doc (invariable) is borrowed from the Italian food-and-wine certification acronym DOC (denominazione di origine controllata) and is used informally to mean 'genuine', 'certified', or 'top-notch'. You might hear un prodotto doc to mean an authentically quality item. It is also used in extended informal sense: romano doc means 'a true Roman through and through'.

Examples

"Questo vino è doc, non c'è dubbio."

Natural Translation

This wine is certified, there's no doubt.

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