coke
English
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Pronunciation
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Audio (AU): (file) - Rhymes: -əʊk
Etymology 1
Perhaps from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Middle English colke.
Alternative forms
- coak (obsolete)
Noun
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.
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Verb
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.
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Etymology 2
Originated circa 1908 in American English as a shortening of cocaine.
Noun
coke (uncountable)
- (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)
- (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, 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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Dutch
Pronunciation
Etymology 1
Noun
coke m (plural cokes)
Usage notes
The singular is less common than the plural form in Dutch, which may also be used like an uncountable singular. Because of the rarity of the singular coke, some people consider it incorrect.
Etymology 2
Noun
coke m (uncountable)
French
Pronunciation
Etymology 1
Borrowed from English coke (“residue from roasting in a coal oven”).
Noun
coke m (plural cokes)
- coke (form of carbon)
Derived terms
Etymology 2
Borrowed from English coke (“cocaine”).
Noun
coke f (plural cokes)
- coke (cocaine)
Synonyms
Further reading
- “coke”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Italian
Noun
coke m (uncountable)
- coke (form of carbon)
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