coke1

[kohk] /koʊk/
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 object), verb (used without object), coked, coking.
2.
to convert into or become coke.
Origin
1375-1425; late Middle English colke, coke, equivalent to Old English col coal + -(o)ca -ock
Related forms
cokelike, coky, adjective

coke2

[kohk] /koʊk/
noun
1.
cocaine.
verb (used with object)
2.
to affect with a narcotic drug, especially with cocaine (usually followed by up or out).
Origin
1905-10, Americanism; short for cocaine

Coke

[koo k] /kʊk/
noun
1.
Sir Edward, 1552–1634, English jurist and writer on law.
Also, Cooke.
Examples from the web for coke
  • The blast-furnace rose in the eighteenth century and developed with the use of coke.
  • The resultant wood coke can be further burned to drive steam turbine generators.
  • Watch what happens to your coke when you leave it in the sun.
  • coke's use of social media has won it a strong fan base.
  • It made countless best-of lists and came to define coke rap.
  • coke consumption takes off at the upper end of the development scale.
  • But he never considered how pot, smack, and coke would factor into the mix.
  • coke and heroin are on the rise, weed's the staple diet.
  • Atop the commode sat a half-finished bourbon and coke.
  • We all remember what happened to him after he went under and was caught selling coke.
British Dictionary definitions for coke

coke1

/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
3.
to become or convert into coke
Word Origin
C17: probably a variant of C14 northern English dialect colk core, of obscure origin

coke2

/kəʊk/
noun
1.
(slang) short for cocaine

Coke1

/kəʊk/
noun
1.
trademark short for Coca-Cola

Coke2

/kʊk; kəʊk/
noun
1.
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). 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
Contemporary definitions for coke
noun

See Coca-Cola

Word Origin and History for coke
n.

"residue of fuel," 1690s, northern English dialect, perhaps a variant of Middle English colke "core, charcoal" (c.1400), itself possibly related to -colc, an Old English word for "pit," which perhaps would give it a sense of "what is left in the pit after a fire."

shortened form of cocaine, 1908, American English.

Coke

soft drink, 1909, shortening of brand name Coca-Cola.

coke in Medicine

coke (kōk)
n.
Cocaine.

Slang definitions & phrases for coke

coke

modifier

: coke peddlers/ coke sniffer

noun

Cocaine (1908+)


Coke

noun

Coca-Cola, trademark name of a soft drink (1909+)


Related Abbreviations for coke

coke

cocaine