coke

See also: Coke

English

Pronunciation

  • (UK) IPA(key): /kəʊk/
  • (US) IPA(key): /koʊk/
  • Rhymes: -əʊk

Etymology 1

Perhaps from Middle English colke.

Alternative forms

Noun

coke (uncountable)

  1. (uncountable) Solid residue from roasting coal in a coke oven; used principally as a fuel and in the production of steel and formerly as a domestic fuel.
    • The plant should produce approximately 550,000 tons of screened blast furnace coke per year.
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Verb

coke (third-person singular simple present cokes, present participle coking, simple past and past participle coked)

  1. (transitive) To produce coke from coal.
  2. (intransitive) To turn into coke.
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Etymology 2

Originated circa 1908 in American English as a shortening of cocaine.

Noun

coke (uncountable)

  1. (informal, slang, uncountable) Cocaine.
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Etymology 3

1909, from the name of the American company Coca-Cola and the beverage it produced; the drink was named for two of its original ingredients, coca leaves and cola nut.

Noun

coke (plural cokes)

  1. (uncountable, informal) Alternative letter-case form of Coke (cola-based soft drink, especially Coca-Cola).
  2. (countable, informal) Alternative letter-case form of Coke (a serving of cola-based soft drink, especially Coca-Cola).
  3. (US, chiefly Southern US, informal) Alternative letter-case form of Coke (any soft drink, regardless of type).
Synonyms
  • (soft drink): see the list at soda
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French

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /kɔk/

Etymology 1

Borrowed from English coke (“residue from roasting in a coal oven”).

Noun

coke m (plural cokes)

  1. coke (form of carbon)
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Etymology 2

Borrowed from English coke (“cocaine”).

Noun

coke f (plural cokes)

  1. coke (cocaine)
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Italian

Noun

coke m (invariable)

  1. coke (clarification of this definition is needed)
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