coke
See also: Coke
English
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /kəʊk/
- (US) IPA(key): /koʊk/
Audio (AU) (file) - Rhymes: -əʊk
Etymology 1
Perhaps from Middle English colk (“core”).
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.
- 1963, “The Coal Industry in Mainland China Since 1949”, in The Geographical Journal, volume 129, number 3, ISSN 0016-7398, JSTOR 1794831, OCLC 905927071, page 333:
- At Ho-pi (Hopi) in northern Honan two modern shafts were under construction in 1957-8; but the coal from Ho-pi is expected to be of rather poor quality and so will be mixed with rich coal from P'ing-ting-shan (Pingtingshan) in central Honan for coke making.
Derived terms
- biocoke
- coke breeze
- coke oven gas
- petroleum coke (pet coke)
- semicoke (semi-coke)
Related terms
- coking coal
Descendants
- → Portuguese: coque
Translations
coal product
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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.
- (especially automotive, astronautics) To add deleterious carbon deposits as a byproduct of combustion.
- In kerolox engines, some of the fuel flow cokes in the engine's cooling passages over time, requiring thorough cleaning prior to reuse.
Derived terms
- coking
- coking coal
- decoke
- decoking
Translations
to produce coke
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to turn into coke
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Etymology 2
Originated circa 1908 in American English as a clipping of cocaine.
Noun
coke (uncountable)
- (informal, slang, uncountable) Cocaine.
Derived terms
- coke dick
- cokehead (coke head)
- coke whore
Translations
short for cocaine
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See also
- coca
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
Derived terms
- coke bottle (coke-bottle)
- coke float
Translations
Coke — see Coke
Derived terms
- go and eat coke
References
- Douglas Harper (2001–2023), “coke”, in Online Etymology Dictionary.
Dutch
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /koːk/
- Hyphenation: coke
- Rhymes: -oːk
- Homophone: kook
Etymology 1
Borrowed from English coke.
Noun
coke m (plural cokes)
- (chiefly in the plural) coke (type of processed carbon used as fuel)
Usage notes
The singular is less common than the plural form in Dutch, which may also be used like an uncountable singular.
Etymology 2
Borrowed from English coke.
Noun
coke m (uncountable)
- (slang) cocaine, coke
- Synonym: cocaïne
French
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /kɔk/
Etymology 1
Borrowed from English coke (“residue from roasting in a coal oven”).
Noun
coke m (plural cokes)
- coke (form of carbon)
Derived terms
- cokerie
Etymology 2
Borrowed from English coke (“cocaine”).
Noun
coke f (plural cokes)
- coke (cocaine)
- Synonym: cocaïne
Further reading
- “coke”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Italian
Noun
coke m (invariable)
- coke (form of carbon)
Anagrams
- ceko
Middle English
Noun
coke
- Alternative form of colk