Coke

See also: coke

English

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

Coke (plural Cokes)

(uncountable, informal) Cola-based soft drink; (in particular) Coca-Cola.
(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, Little, Brown and Company, OCLC 287628, 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.'
(US, especially Southern US, informal) Any soft drink, regardless of type.

informal: any cola-flavored drink

Bulgarian: кола (bg) f (kola)
Chinese:
Cantonese: 可樂, 可乐 (ho² lok⁶)
Hakka: 可樂, 可乐 (khó-lá, khó-là)
Mandarin: 可樂 (zh), 可乐 (zh) (kělè)
Min Nan: 可樂 (zh-min-nan), 可乐 (khó-lo̍k)
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)

Coca-Cola

informal: any soft drink