Coke

See also: coke

English

Pronunciation

• (General American, Canada) IPA^(key): /koʊk/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /kəʊk/
• Rhymes: -oʊk, -əʊk

Etymology 1

Clipping of Coca-Cola. See coke (“cola”).

Alternative forms

• coke

Noun

Coke (countable and uncountable, plural Cokes)

1. (countable, uncountable, informal) Cola-based soft drink; (in particular) Coca-Cola.
2. (countable, informal) A bottle, glass or can of Coca-Cola or a cola-based soft drink.
   • 1951, J. D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye, Boston, Mass.: Little, Brown and Company, →OCLC, page 168:

     The waiter came up, and I ordered a Coke for her—she didn't drink—and a Scotch and soda for myself, but the sonuvabitch wouldn't bring me one, so I had a Coke, too.

   • 1958, Franklin Martin, “The Trouble with Mrs. Benton”, in Venus, volume 1, number 1, Garden of Eve Publications, page 16:

     'You have a coke and I'll have a beer and we can talk business.'

3. (US, especially Southern US, informal) Any soft drink, regardless of type.

Synonyms

• (soft drink): see the list at soda

Translations

informal: any cola-flavored drink

• Armenian: կոլա (hy) (kola)
• Bulgarian: кола (bg) f (kola)
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 可樂／可乐 (ho² lok⁶)

  Hakka: 可樂／可乐 (khó-lá, khó-là)

  Hokkien: 可樂／可乐 (zh-min-nan) (khó-lo̍k)

  Mandarin: 可樂／可乐 (zh) (kělè)

• Danish: cola (da) c
• Estonian: koola
• Finnish: kokis (fi)
• French: coca (fr) m, Coke (fr) (Quebec)
• German: Cola (de) f or n
• Hebrew: קולה (he) f (kóla)
• Hindi: कोक (hi) f (kok)
• Icelandic: kók (is) f
• Italian: coca (it) f
• Japanese: コーラ (ja) (kōra)
• Norwegian: cola (no) m
• Portuguese: coca (pt) f, cola (pt) f
• Spanish: cola (es) f, bebida de cola (es) f, refresco de cola m
• Swedish: kola (sv)
• Turkish: kola (tr)
• Yoruba: kóòkì

Coca-Cola

• Arabic: كُولَا f (kulā)
• Armenian: կոլա (hy) (kola)
• Cornish: kok m
• Czech: kola (cs) f
• Danish: cola (da) c
• Dutch: cola (nl) m
• Estonian: koka
• Finnish: kokis (fi)
• French: coca (fr) m
• German: Cola (de) f or n, Coca-Cola (de) f or n
• Hungarian: kóla (hu)
• Marathi: कोक (kok)
• Portuguese: coca (pt) f
• Russian: ко́ла (ru) f (kóla)
• Scottish Gaelic: còc m
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: кола f

  Roman: kola (sh) f

• Spanish: coca (es) f, coke f, Coca-Cola (es) f
• Swedish: cola (sv) c, coca (sv) c, cokis
• Thai: โค้ก (th) (kóok)
• Vietnamese: coca (vi)
• Welsh: côc m
• Yoruba: kóòkì

informal: any soft drink

• Estonian: karastusjook
• Finnish: limu (fi)
• Portuguese: refri (pt)

Etymology 2

Proper noun

Coke

1. A surname

Derived terms

• Coke's hartebeest