Coke

Pronunciation

• IPA: kəʊk
• Rhymes: -əʊk

Perhaps from Middle English colke.

Full definition of coke

Noun

1. (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.

Derived terms

• biocoke

Verb

1. (transitive) To produce coke from coal.
2. (intransitive) To turn into coke.

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

Noun

1. (informal, slang, uncountable) Cocaine.

1909, from the name of the American company Coca-Cola and the beverage it produced.

Noun

1. Alternative capitalization of Coke
2. A genericized trademark for cola