coke

See also Coke

English

Wikipedia

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -əʊk

Etymology 1

Perhaps from Middle English colke.

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.

Translations

coal product

• Bulgarian: кокс (bg) m (koks)
• Czech: koks (cs) m
• Danish: koks (da)
• Finnish: koksi (fi)
• French: charbon (fr), coke (fr) m
• German: Koks (de) n
• Icelandic: koks (is) n

• Italian: coke (it) m
• Norwegian: koks (no) m
• Russian: кокс (ru) (koks) m 
• Spanish: coque (es) m
• Swedish: koks (sv) n
• Welsh: golosg (cy) m

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.

Translations

to produce coke

• Finnish: koksata (fi)

to turn into coke

• Finnish: koksautua (fi)

Etymology 2

1908, American English

Noun

coke (uncountable)

1. (informal, slang, uncountable) cocaine.

See also

• coca

Translations

short for cocaine

• Finnish: koka (fi)
• French: coke (fr) f
• German: Koks (de) n
• Italian: coca (it) f

• Russian: кокс (ru) (koks) m , кокос (ru) (kókos) m , кока (ru) (kóka) f 
• Spanish: coca (es) f
• Swedish: kola (sv), koks (sv), snö (sv)

Etymology 3

1909, American company Coca-Cola

Noun

coke (plural cokes)

1. (informal, countable) any cola-flavored drink, especially Coca-Cola.
2. (southern US) any soft drink

Translations

informal: any cola flavored drink

• Bulgarian: кола (bg) f (kola)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 可樂 (cmn), 可乐 (cmn) (kělè)

• Finnish: kokis (fi)
• French: coca (fr) m

• Italian: coca (it) f
• Japanese: コーラ (ja) (kōra)
• Norwegian: cola (no) m
• Swedish: kola (sv)
• Turkish: kola (tr)

informal: any soft drink

• Finnish: limu (fi)

References

• http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?term=coke

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French

Etymology 1

English coke (first etymology)

Noun

coke m (plural cokes)

1. coke (form of carbon)

Derived terms

• cokerie

Etymology 2

From English coke (second etymology)

Noun

coke f (plural cokes)

1. coke (slang: cocaine)

Synonyms

• cocaïne

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Italian

Noun

coke m (invariable)

1. coke (clarification of this Italian definition is being sought)