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coke¹
- /kəʊk/ UK
- /koʊk/ US
- /koʉk/ Australia
Rhymes with -əʊk
Where it comes from
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”).
noun coak
- 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.
verb cokes · coking · coked · coak
- To produce coke from coal.
- To turn into coke.
- 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.
coke²
- /kəʊk/ UK
- /koʊk/ US
- /koʉk/ Australia
Rhymes with -əʊk
Where it comes from
Etymology tree
Aymarader.
Quechua kukabor.
Aymara kukabor.
Spanish cocabor.
English coca
English -ine
English cocaineclip.
English coke
Originated circa 1908 in American English as a clipping of cocaine.
noun
- Cocaine.
coke³
- /kəʊk/ UK
- /koʊk/ US
- /koʉk/ Australia
Rhymes with -əʊk
Where it comes from
Since 1909, by genericization 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 cokes
- Alternative letter-case form of Coke (cola-based soft drink, especially Coca-Cola).Coke
- Alternative letter-case form of Coke (a serving of cola-based soft drink, especially Coca-Cola).Coke
- Alternative letter-case form of Coke (any soft drink, regardless of type).Coke
Similar: the list at soda
Coke⁴
- /koʊk/ Canada, US
- /kəʊk/ UK
Rhymes with -oʊk, -əʊk
Where it comes from
Etymology tree
Aymarader.
Quechua kukabor.
Aymara kukabor.
Spanish cocabor.
English coca
Niger-Congoder.
English cola
English Coca-Colaclip.
English Coke
Clipping of Coca-Cola. See coke (“cola”).
noun Cokes · coke
- Cola-based soft drink; (in particular) Coca-Cola.
- A bottle, glass or can of Coca-Cola or a cola-based soft drink. 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.
- Any soft drink, regardless of type.
Similar: the list at soda
Coke⁵
- /koʊk/ Canada, US
- /kəʊk/ UK
Rhymes with -oʊk, -əʊk
proper noun
- A surname
