coke
English[edit]
Pronunciation[edit]
- (UK) IPA(key): /kəʊk/
- (US) IPA(key): /koʊk/
- (General Australian) IPA(key): /koʉk/
Audio (AU) (file) - Rhymes: -əʊk
Etymology 1[edit]
Perhaps from Middle English colk (“core”).
Alternative forms[edit]
- coak (obsolete)
Noun[edit]
coke (uncountable)
- (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.
- 1963, “The Coal Industry in Mainland China Since 1949”, in The Geographical Journal[1], volume 129, number 3, →ISSN, →JSTOR, →OCLC, page 333:
- At Ho-pi (Hopi) in northern Honan two modern shafts were under construction in 1957-8; but the coal from Ho-pi is expected to be of rather poor quality and so will be mixed with rich coal from P'ing-ting-shan (Pingtingshan) in central Honan for coke making.
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Descendants[edit]
- → Portuguese: coque
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Verb[edit]
coke (third-person singular simple present cokes, present participle coking, simple past and past participle coked)
- (transitive) To produce coke from coal.
- (intransitive) To turn into coke.
- (especially automotive, astronautics) To add deleterious carbon deposits as a byproduct of combustion.
- In kerolox engines, some of the fuel flow cokes in the engine's cooling passages over time, requiring thorough cleaning prior to reuse.
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Etymology 2[edit]
Originated circa 1908 in American English as a clipping of cocaine.
Noun[edit]
coke (uncountable)
- (informal, slang, uncountable) Cocaine.
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Etymology 3[edit]
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[edit]
coke (plural cokes)
- (uncountable, informal) Alternative letter-case form of Coke (cola-based soft drink, especially Coca-Cola).
- (countable, informal) Alternative letter-case form of Coke (a serving of cola-based soft drink, especially Coca-Cola).
- (US, chiefly Southern US, New Mexico, informal) Alternative letter-case form of Coke (any soft drink, regardless of type).
Synonyms[edit]
- (soft drink): see the list at soda
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References[edit]
- Douglas Harper (2001–2024) “coke”, in Online Etymology Dictionary.
Dutch[edit]
Pronunciation[edit]
Etymology 1[edit]
Noun[edit]
coke m (plural cokes)
Usage notes[edit]
The singular is less common than the plural form in Dutch, which may also be used like an uncountable singular.
Etymology 2[edit]
Unadapted borrowing from English coke.
Noun[edit]
coke m (uncountable)
French[edit]
Pronunciation[edit]
Etymology 1[edit]
Borrowed from English coke (“residue from roasting in a coal oven”).
Noun[edit]
coke m (plural cokes)
- coke (form of carbon)
Derived terms[edit]
Etymology 2[edit]
Borrowed from English coke (“cocaine”).
Noun[edit]
coke f (plural cokes)
Further reading[edit]
- “coke”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Italian[edit]
Noun[edit]
coke m (invariable)
- coke (form of carbon)
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Middle English[edit]
Noun[edit]
coke
- Alternative form of colk
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