coke
1the solid product resulting from the destructive distillation of coal in an oven or closed chamber or by imperfect combustion, consisting principally of carbon: used chiefly as a fuel in metallurgy to reduce metallic oxides to metals.
to convert into or become coke.
Origin of coke
1Other words from coke
- cokelike, coky, adjective
Other definitions for coke (2 of 4)
to bring (oneself) to a specified state or point by using cocaine: She drank and smoked and coked herself into a heart attack.Sadly, this promising hockey player coked himself out of an NHL job.
coke up / out to drug (oneself or another), especially with cocaine: The episode starts with her haggardly coking up and then packing her kids off to school.They coked her out, stole all her cash, and left her wandering in an unfamiliar neighborhood.
Origin of coke
2Other definitions for Coke (3 of 4)
a carbonated soft drink.
Origin of Coke
3Other definitions for Coke (4 of 4)
or Cooke
Sir Edward, 1552–1634, English jurist and writer on law.
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How to use coke in a sentence
The next day, he spent the morning at Memorial Stadium pouring cokes at an Oriole party for a hundred poor children.
I think for a lot of people, rum is about rum and Cokes and frozen drinks.
I was at a cocktail party two weeks ago, when, after a series of vodka Diet Cokes, my friend Sameera Buxani piped up.
Embarrassed by the reprimand, the three Cubs took themselves to the club where they sat on the veranda drinking cokes.
Dan Carter and the River Camp | Mildred A. WirtThe chicken had toddled into the fire, and gasped its faint gasp among the red-hot cokes.
The White Peacock | D. H. (David Herbert) Lawrence
One of the Egyptian technicians drove to the Mena House and brought back sandwiches and cokes.
The Egyptian Cat Mystery | Harold Leland GoodwinThis kind of coal is free from sulphur and phosphorus, and it cokes very nicely when the gas and tar are burnt out.
The Library of Work and Play: Working in Metals | Charles Conrad SleffelThey all finally meet before the puppet-show, which has fixed the attention of Cokes, and there justice Overdo discovers himself.
A History of Caricature and Grotesque | Thomas Wright
British Dictionary definitions for coke (1 of 4)
/ (kəʊk) /
a solid-fuel product containing about 80 per cent of carbon produced by distillation of coal to drive off its volatile constituents: used as a fuel and in metallurgy as a reducing agent for converting metal oxides into metals
any similar material, such as the layer formed in the cylinders of a car engine by incomplete combustion of the fuel
to become or convert into coke
Origin of coke
1British Dictionary definitions for coke (2 of 4)
/ (kəʊk) /
slang short for cocaine
British Dictionary definitions for Coke (3 of 4)
/ (kəʊk) /
trademark short for Coca-Cola
British Dictionary definitions for Coke (4 of 4)
/ (kʊk, kəʊk) /
Sir Edward. 1552–1634, English jurist, noted for his defence of the common law against encroachment from the Crown: the Petition of Right (1628) was largely his work
(kʊk) Thomas William, 1st Earl of Leicester, known as Coke of Holkham. 1752–1842, English agriculturist: pioneered agricultural improvement and considerably improved productivity at his Holkham estate in Norfolk
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