coke

CEFRB1

/kəʊk/

noun

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In plain English

  1. 01

    noun

    A fizzy drink with a sweet cola flavor.

  2. 02

    noun

    A strong illegal drug made from cocaine.

Examples

  • Can I have two hamburgers and a coke, please?

  • Coke has always been the top dog when it comes to soft drinks.

At a glance

Sits at B1 on the CEFR scale

Senses
5
Parts of speech
1
Citations
2
Synonyms
1

Also pronounced

  • /koʊk/

Deep Dive

noun

Extra meanings

  1. To produce coke from coal.

  2. To turn into coke.

  3. 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.

More examples

In context

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

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

Synonyms

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Origin

noun

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”).