coke

1 carbon fuel produced by distillation of coal

2 Coca Cola is a trademarked cola [syn: Coca Cola]

3 street names for cocaine [syn: blow, nose candy, snow, C] v : become coke; "petroleum oils coke after distillation"

see Coke

English

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -əʊk

Etymology 1

maybe from colke.

Noun

1. Solid residue from roasting coal in a coke oven; used principally as a fuel and in the production of steel. Formally used also as a domestic fuel in Appalachian coal-mining areas.
   • The plant should produce approximately 550,000 tons of screened blast furnace coke per year.
2. A type of the coal-derived steel-making material and fuel.

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Etymology 2

1908, American English

Noun

1. In the context of "informal|slang|uncountable": cocaine.

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Etymology 3

1909, American company Coca-Cola

Noun

1. In the context of "informal|countable": any type of caramel-colored soft drink, especially Coca Cola.

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References

• http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?term=coke

Italian

Noun

coke

1. coke

Coke may refer to:

• Coke (fuel), a solid carbonaceous residue derived from destructive distillation of coal
• Petroleum coke, a solid carbon rich residue derived from distillation of crude oil
• Cocaine, a drug extracted from the leaf of the coca plant
• Coca-Cola, a soft drink originally based on coca leaf extract
  • The Coca-Cola Company, makers of this drink
  • Cola, any soft drink similar to Coca-Cola
• Soft drink, any nonalcoholic carbonated beverage
• Coke County, Texas, a county in central Texas, United States

People named Coke

• David Coke (1915–1941), a British pilot during World War II
• Edward Coke (1552–1634), English entrepreneur and jurist
• Edward Coke (1758-1837), a British politician and landowner
• Edward Coke, 7th Earl of Leicester (born 1936), an English earl
• Giles Coke, an English footballer
• John Coke, an English politician
• Peter Coke, a British actor, playwright and artist
• Richard Coke, an American lawyer, farmer, and statesman
• Thomas Coke, the first Methodist Bishop
• Thomas Coke, 1st Earl of Leicester (seventh creation), agricultural reformer

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