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
Words Nearby coke
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
He would shake a chilled coke, and then spray the soda into a cold glass of milk.
At his trial, he also said he was hooked on coke from the age of 8.
The Renegade: Robert Downey Sr. on His Classic Films, Son’s Battle with Drugs, and Bill Cosby | Marlow Stern | November 26, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTThere was a lot of weed, he snorted a ton of coke, was guzzling Bloody Marys.
The Unbelievable (True) Story of the World’s Most Infamous Hash Smuggler | Marlow Stern | November 14, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTTal Kallai is a gay man who does drag, playing a coke-dealing and fast-talking transgender woman in ‘Marzipan Flowers.’
Trans in the Holy Land: ‘Marzipan Flowers,’ Tal Kallai, and the Shattering of Israel’s LGBT Taboos | Itay Hod | November 4, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTMichael keeps his cool until he sees piles of Petroleum coke on the banks of the Athabasca.
It is difficult to appreciate any marked resemblance between coke and the core of an apple.
Archaic England | Harold BayleyThe girl who was drinking a coke had the glass to her lips, but apparently she wasn't sipping the liquid.
The Day Time Stopped Moving | Bradner BucknerThe same strong, oak tables of the days of Bacon, coke, and Jonson still stretch from end to end.
Milton's England | Lucia Ames MeadUnversed in law, he was more than a match for the incomparable legal learning of coke and for his docile bench of judges.
Sir Walter Ralegh | William Stebbingcoke objected to having the King's evidence dismembered, 'whereby it might lose much of its grace and vigour.'
Sir Walter Ralegh | William Stebbing
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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