cocaine

cocaine

See also: cocaïne and cocaïné

English

A pile of cocaine powder.

Alternative forms

• cocain (dated)
• cocaïne (obsolete)

Etymology

From coca +‎ -ine, from Quechua kuka.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /kə(ʊ)ˈkeɪn/

• Audio (RP)

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• (General American) IPA^(key): /koʊˈkeɪn/, /ˈkoʊˌkeɪn/
• Rhymes: -eɪn

Noun

cocaine (countable and uncountable, plural cocaines)

1. (uncountable, pharmacology) An addictive drug derived from coca (Erythroxylum) or prepared synthetically, used sometimes medicinally as a local anesthetic and, often illegally, as a stimulant.

   Synonyms: blow, coke, girl, nose candy, powder, rock, slim, snow, snuff, white lady, yay; see also Thesaurus:cocaine

   • 1891 June 25, A[rthur] Conan Doyle, “Adventures of Sherlock Holmes. Adventure I.—A Scandal in Bohemia.”, in Geo[rge] Newnes, editor, The Strand Magazine: An Illustrated Monthly, volume II, London: George Newnes, Limited, […], published July 1891, OCLC 1006315258:

     Holmes, who loathed every form of society with his whole Bohemian soul, remained in our lodgings in Baker-street, buried among his old books, and alternating from week to week between cocaine and ambition, the drowsiness of the drug, and the fierce energy of his own keen nature.

   • 1983, “Cold Coffee & Cocaine”, performed by Prince:

     All I get, uh, is this cup of cold coffee and cocaine / And your ugly face, look out

   • 1990, Andrew Davies; Michael Dobbs, House of Cards, season 1, episode 1, spoken by Frank Urquhart (Ian Richardson):

     Cocaine’s awfully expensive stuff, isn't it? Is it worth it?

2. (countable) Any derivative of cocaine.

Derived terms

• -caine
• cocaine addict
• cocaine base
• cocaine bugs
• cocaine cowboy
• cocaine paste
• crack cocaine
• rock cocaine

 

Related terms

• cokehead
• hydroxytropacocaine
• tropacocaine

Translations

the narcotic

Arabic: كُوكَايِين‎ m (kukayīn) Armenian: կոկաին (hy) (kokain) Bulgarian: кокаин m (kokain) Burmese: ကိုကိန်း (kuikin:) Catalan: cocaïna (ca) f Chinese: Cantonese: 可卡因 (ho2 kaa1 jan1) Hakka: 古柯鹼, 古柯碱 (kù-kher-chièn) Mandarin: 可卡因 (zh) (kěkǎyīn), 古柯鹼／古柯碱 (zh) (gǔkējiǎn) Cornish: kokayn m Czech: kokain (cs) m Danish: kokain Dutch: cocaïne (nl) m, sos (nl) c, coke (nl) c Esperanto: kokaino Estonian: kokaiin Faroese: kokain n Finnish: kokaiini (fi) French: cocaïne (fr) f Galician: cocaína f, fariña (gl) f (colloquial) Georgian: კოკაინი (ḳoḳaini) German: Kokain (de) n Greek: κοκαΐνη (el) f (kokaḯni) Hebrew: קוֹקָאִין‎ (he) m (koka'ín) Hindi: कोकीन (hi) (kokīn), कोकेन (hi) f (koken) Hungarian: kokain (hu) Icelandic: kókaín n Ido: kokaino (io) Irish: cócaon m Italian: cocaina (it) f Japanese: コカイン (kokain) Khmer: កូកាអ៊ីន (koukaaʼiin), ខូខេន (khoukheen) Korean: 코카인 (ko) (kokain) Lao: ໂຄເຄນ (khō khēn) Macedonian: кокаи́н m (kokaín) Malay: kokain Navajo: nííʼiiʼniłí Nepali: कोकेन (ne) (kokena) Norwegian: kokain m or n Oriya: କୋକେନ୍ (or) (koken) Persian: کوکائین‎ (fa) Polish: kokaina (pl) f Portuguese: cocaína (pt) f Romanian: cocaină (ro) f Russian: кокаи́н (ru) m (kokaín) Serbo-Croatian: Cyrillic: кокаин m Roman: kokain (sh) m Shan: ၵူဝ်ႇၵဵၼ်း (kò káen) Spanish: cocaína (es) f Swahili: kokeni Swedish: kokain (sv) n Tagalog: kokayna, kokaina Thai: โคเคน (th) (koo-keen), โคคาอีน (th) (koo-kaa-iin) Turkish: kokain (tr) Ukrainian: кокаї́н m (kokajín) Yoruba: kokéènì

See also

• crack
• snort
• yay

Further reading

• “cocaine”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.
• “cocaine”, in Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary
• cocaine on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• Oceanic, oceanic

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Italian

Noun

cocaine f

1. plural of cocaina

Anagrams

• acneico