coke

¹

[ kohk ]

noun

1. the 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.

verb (used with or without object)

, coked, cok·ing.

1. to convert into or become coke.

Coke

²

[ kohk ]

noun

, (sometimes lowercase)

1. a carbonated soft drink.

coke

³

[ kohk ]

noun

1. cocaine ( def ).

verb (used with object)

1. 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.

verb phrase

1. 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.

Coke

⁴

or Cooke

[ kook ]

noun

1. Sir Edward, 1552–1634, English jurist and writer on law.

coke

¹

/ kəʊk /

noun

1. See cocaine
   slang.
   short for cocaine

coke

²

/ kəʊk /

noun

1. 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
2. any similar material, such as the layer formed in the cylinders of a car engine by incomplete combustion of the fuel

verb

1. to become or convert into coke

Coke

³

/ kəʊk /

noun

1. See Coca-Cola
   short for Coca-Cola

Coke

⁴

/ kəʊk; kʊk /

noun

1. CokeSir Edward15521634MEnglishLAW: jurist 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
2. kʊk CokeThomas William, 1st Earl of Leicester17521842MEnglishTECHNOLOGY: agriculturalist 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

Other Words From

• cokelike coky adjective

Word History and Origins

Origin of coke¹

1375–1425; late Middle English colke, coke, equivalent to Old English col coal + -( o ) ca -ock

Origin of coke²

From Coke, the brand name of a carbonated cola drink

Origin of coke³

An Americanism first recorded in 1905–10; short for cocaine

Word History and Origins

Origin of coke¹

C17: probably a variant of C14 northern English dialect colk core, of obscure origin

Example Sentences

Drawing on his boatbuilding experience, he built a thick fiberglass body strengthened by steel tubes, later boasting that the vehicle’s shape was as distinctive as that of a Coke bottle.

From Washington Post

You won’t see commercials for other Super Bowl mainstays like Coke, Pepsi, or Hyundai either.

From Quartz

The company plans to increase marketing investment behind Coke in the fourth quarter and into 2021, he added.

From Digiday

Even though Coke and Pepsi are so big, they don’t truly dominate.

From Freakonomics

One of the things that is helpful and why we have such a great-tasting Coke product is because of our volumes.

From Time

He would shake a chilled Coke, and then spray the soda into a cold glass of milk.

From The Daily Beast

At his trial, he also said he was hooked on coke from the age of 8.

From The Daily Beast

There was a lot of weed, he snorted a ton of coke, was guzzling Bloody Marys.

From The Daily Beast

Tal Kallai is a gay man who does drag, playing a coke-dealing and fast-talking transgender woman in ‘Marzipan Flowers.’

From The Daily Beast

Michael keeps his cool until he sees piles of Petroleum Coke on the banks of the Athabasca.

From The Daily Beast

It is difficult to appreciate any marked resemblance between coke and the core of an apple.

From Project Gutenberg

The girl who was drinking a coke had the glass to her lips, but apparently she wasn't sipping the liquid.

From Project Gutenberg

The same strong, oak tables of the days of Bacon, Coke, and Jonson still stretch from end to end.

From Project Gutenberg

Unversed in law, he was more than a match for the incomparable legal learning of Coke and for his docile bench of judges.

From Project Gutenberg

Coke objected to having the King's evidence dismembered, 'whereby it might lose much of its grace and vigour.'

From Project Gutenberg

Related Words

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