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Coke

//koʊk// name, noun, verb, slang

Definitions

Proper Noun
  1. 1
    A surname
Noun
  1. 1
    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. uncountable

    "The plant should produce approximately 550,000 tons of screened blast furnace coke per year."

  2. 2
    Cocaine. informal, slang, uncountable
  3. 3
    Alternative letter-case form of Coke (cola-based soft drink, especially Coca-Cola). alt-of, informal, uncountable
  4. 4
    Cola-based soft drink; (in particular) Coca-Cola. countable, informal, uncountable
  5. 5
    street names for cocaine wordnet
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  1. 6
    Alternative letter-case form of Coke (a serving of cola-based soft drink, especially Coca-Cola). alt-of, countable, informal
  2. 7
    A bottle, glass or can of Coca-Cola or a cola-based soft drink. countable, informal

    "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."

  3. 8
    Coca Cola is a trademarked cola wordnet
  4. 9
    Alternative letter-case form of Coke (any soft drink, regardless of type). Southern-US, US, alt-of, informal
  5. 10
    Any soft drink, regardless of type. Southern-US, US, countable, especially, informal, uncountable
  6. 11
    carbon fuel produced by distillation of coal wordnet
Verb
  1. 1
    To produce coke from coal. transitive
  2. 2
    become coke wordnet
  3. 3
    To turn into coke. intransitive
  4. 4
    To add deleterious carbon deposits as a byproduct of combustion. especially

    "In kerolox engines, some of the fuel flow cokes in the engine's cooling passages over time, requiring thorough cleaning prior to reuse."

Etymology

Etymology 1

The origin is not certain. The OED says it is first attested in 1669. The MED has an earlier attestation in the related sense of "charcoal" in 1430: Middle English coke. This may be the same word as colk (“core”) (perhaps from the notion that coke is the core of the material left after it burning), from Old English *colc (“hole, well”), from Proto-West Germanic *kolk, from Proto-Germanic *kulukaz (“a hollow, depression”), from Proto-Indo-European *g(ʷ)el- (“to swallow, devour; gullet”). If so, cognate with Saterland Frisian Kolk (“maelstrom, depression, whirlpool”), West Frisian kolk (“maelstrom, whirlpool”), Dutch kolk (“maelstrom, vortex, whirlpool”), German Kolk (“pothole”).

Etymology 2

The origin is not certain. The OED says it is first attested in 1669. The MED has an earlier attestation in the related sense of "charcoal" in 1430: Middle English coke. This may be the same word as colk (“core”) (perhaps from the notion that coke is the core of the material left after it burning), from Old English *colc (“hole, well”), from Proto-West Germanic *kolk, from Proto-Germanic *kulukaz (“a hollow, depression”), from Proto-Indo-European *g(ʷ)el- (“to swallow, devour; gullet”). If so, cognate with Saterland Frisian Kolk (“maelstrom, depression, whirlpool”), West Frisian kolk (“maelstrom, whirlpool”), Dutch kolk (“maelstrom, vortex, whirlpool”), German Kolk (“pothole”).

Etymology 3

Originated circa 1908 in American English as a clipping of cocaine.

Etymology 4

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.

Etymology 5

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

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