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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, coking.
  1. to convert into or become coke.

Coke

2

[ kohk ]

noun

(sometimes lowercase)
  1. a carbonated soft drink.

coke

3

[ kohk ]

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. short for Coca-Cola
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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
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verb

  1. to become or convert into coke
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coke

3

/ kəʊk /

noun

  1. slang.
    short for cocaine
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Coke

4

/ kʊk; kəʊk /

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
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Other Word Forms

  • cokelike coky adjective
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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
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Word History and Origins

Origin of coke1

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

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The government said work was under way on Monday to obtain the coking coal and iron ore that power the plant's two furnaces - materials it previously said owners Jingye had been selling off.

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Today, Scunthorpe has an air of a town returning to a war footing; a community fighting to keep the coke ovens burning, with 2,700 jobs and its identity etched into steel at stake.

From BBC

The blast furnaces generate the extreme heat needed to produce virgin steel and are fuelled by coking coal and iron pellets - but supplies of those raw materials at the Scunthorpe plant are running low.

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On Wednesday, sources said the government had offered to buy the coking coal that is essential to keep the blast furnaces going.

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The plant's Chinese owner, Jingye, has cancelled two cargo shipments of coking coal for the site's two blast furnaces and it has not yet paid for iron pellets that are scheduled to arrive next week.

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