cocaine

See also: cocaïne and cocaïné

English

A pile of cocaine powder.

Etymology

coca +‎ -ine. Coca is from Quechua kuka.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /koʊˈkeɪn/, /kəˈkeɪn/, /ˈkoʊkeɪn/
Rhymes: -eɪn

Noun

cocaine (countable and uncountable, plural cocaines)

(uncountable) A stimulant narcotic, derived from cultivated plants of the genus Erythroxylum, in the form of a white powder that users generally self-administer by insufflation through the nose.
- 1990, House of Cards, Season 1, Episode 1:
  Frank Urquhart: Cocaine’s awfully expensive stuff, isn't it? Is it worth it?
(countable) Any derivative of cocaine.

Synonyms

(slang): blow, booger sugar, Bolivian marching powder, boots, California corn flakes, charlie, coke, girl, nose candy, powder, rock, slim, snow, snuff, white lady, yay, yayo, or yeyo, yola
See also Thesaurus:cocaine

Related terms

Translations

the narcotic

Arabic: كُوكَايِين‎‎ m (kukayīn)
Armenian: կոկաին (hy) (kokain)
Bulgarian: кокаин m (kokain)
Catalan: cocaïna f
Chinese:
Cantonese: 可卡因 (ho² kaa¹ jan¹)

Hakka: 古柯鹼, 古柯碱 (kù-kher-chièn)

Mandarin: 可卡因 (zh) (kěkǎyīn), 古柯鹼 (zh), 古柯碱 (zh) (gǔkējiǎn)
Cornish: kokayn m
Czech: kokain (cs) m
Danish: kokain
Dutch: cocaïne (nl) m, sos (nl) c, coke (nl) c
Esperanto: kokaino
Estonian: kokaiin
Faroese: kokain n
Finnish: kokaiini (fi)
French: cocaïne (fr) f
Galician: cocaína f, fariña f (colloquial)
German: Kokain (de) n
Greek: κοκαΐνη (el) f (kokaḯni)
Hebrew: קוֹקָאִין‎‎ (he) m (koka'ín)
Hindi: कोकीन (hi) (kokīn)
Hungarian: kokain (hu)

Icelandic: kókaín n
Ido: kokaino (io)
Irish: cócaon m
Italian: cocaina (it) f
Japanese: コカイン (kokain)
Korean: 코카인 (ko) (kokain)
Macedonian: кокаи́н m (kokaín)
Malay: kokain
Navajo: nííʼiiʼniłí
Norwegian: kokain m, n
Polish: kokaina (pl) f
Portuguese: cocaína (pt) f
Romanian: cocaină (ro) f
Russian: кокаи́н (ru) m (kokaín)
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: кокаин m

Roman: kokain (sh) m
Shan: ၵူဝ်ႇၵဵၼ်း (kò kén)
Spanish: cocaína (es) f
Swedish: kokain (sv) n
Tagalog: kokayna, kokaina
Thai: โคเคน (th) (koo-keen)
Turkish: kokain (tr)

See also

crack
snort

Anagrams

Oceanic, oceanic

Italian

Noun

cocaine f

plural of cocaina

Anagrams

acneico

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