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coke

noun
/kəʊk/UK/koʊk/US/koʉk/

Etymology

The origin is not certain. The OED says it is first attested in 1669. The MED has an earlier attestation in the related sense of "charcoal" in 1430: Middle English coke. This may be the same word as colk (“core”) (perhaps from the notion that coke is the core of the material left after it burning), from Old English *colc (“hole, well”), from Proto-West Germanic *kolk, from Proto-Germanic *kulukaz (“a hollow, depression”), from Proto-Indo-European *g(ʷ)el- (“to swallow, devour; gullet”). If so, cognate with Saterland Frisian Kolk (“maelstrom, depression, whirlpool”), West Frisian kolk (“maelstrom, whirlpool”), Dutch kolk (“maelstrom, vortex, whirlpool”), German Kolk (“pothole”).

  1. derived from *g(ʷ)el-✻ — “to swallow, devour; gullet”
  2. inherited from *kulukaz✻ — “a hollow, depression”
  3. inherited from *kolk✻
  4. inherited from *colc✻ — “hole, well”
  5. inherited from coke

Definitions

  1. Solid residue from roasting coal in a coke oven

    Solid residue from roasting coal in a coke oven; used principally as a fuel and in the production of steel and formerly as a domestic fuel.

    • The plant should produce approximately 550,000 tons of screened blast furnace coke per year.

  2. To produce coke from coal.

  3. To turn into coke.

  4. ›+ 9 more definitions

    1. To add deleterious carbon deposits as a byproduct of combustion.

      • In kerolox engines, some of the fuel flow cokes in the engine's cooling passages over time, requiring thorough cleaning prior to reuse.

    2. Cocaine.

    3. Alternative letter-case form of Coke (cola-based soft drink, especially Coca-Cola).

    4. Alternative letter-case form of Coke (a serving of cola-based soft drink, especially…

      Alternative letter-case form of Coke (a serving of cola-based soft drink, especially Coca-Cola).

    5. Alternative letter-case form of Coke (any soft drink, regardless of type).

    6. Cola-based soft drink

      Cola-based soft drink; (in particular) Coca-Cola.

    7. A bottle, glass or can of Coca-Cola or a cola-based soft drink.

      • The waiter came up, and I ordered a Coke for her—she didn't drink—and a Scotch and soda for myself, but the sonuvabitch wouldn't bring me one, so I had a Coke, too.
      • 'You have a coke and I'll have a beer and we can talk business.'

    8. Any soft drink, regardless of type.

    9. A surname

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Derived

coking, coking coal, decoke, decoking, coke bottle, coke float, go and eat coke

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for coke. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA