# coke
## English
### Pronunciation

* (UK) IPA: /kəʊk/
* (US) IPA: /koʊk/
* (General Australian) IPA: /koʉk/
* Audio (General Australian):(file)
* Rhymes: -əʊk

### Etymology 1

Perhaps from Middle English coke, colk (“core”), 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”). Cognate with Saterland Frisian Kolk (“maelstrom, depression, whirlpool”), West Frisian kolk (“maelstrom, whirlpool”), Dutch kolk (“maelstrom, vortex, whirlpool”), German Kolk (“pothole”).

#### Alternative forms

* coak (obsolete)

#### Noun

coke (uncountable)
* (uncountable) 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.
** 1963, “The Coal Industry in Mainland China Since 1949”, in The Geographical Journal‎, volume 129, number 3, →ISSN, →JSTOR, →OCLC, page 333:At Ho-pi (Hopi) in northern Honan two modern shafts were under construction in 1957-8; but the coal from Ho-pi is expected to be of rather poor quality and so will be mixed with rich coal from P'ing-ting-shan (Pingtingshan) in central Honan for coke making.

##### Derived terms

* biocoke
* coke breeze
* cokeless
* cokelike
* cokeman
* coke oven gas
* coker
* cokery
* cokeworks
* coky
* petroleum coke (pet coke)
* semicoke (semi-coke)

##### Related terms

* coking coal

##### Descendants

* → Portuguese: coque

##### Translations
#### Verb

coke (third-person singular simple present cokes, present participle coking, simple past and past participle coked)
* (transitive) To produce coke from coal.
* (intransitive) To turn into coke.
* (especially automotive, astronautics) 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.

##### Derived terms

* coking
* coking coal
* decoke
* decoking

##### Translations
### Etymology 2

Originated circa 1908 in American English as a clipping of cocaine.

#### Noun

coke (uncountable)
* (informal, slang, uncountable) Cocaine.

##### Derived terms

* coke dick
* coked up
* cokehead (coke head)
* coke nose
* coke whore

##### See also

* coca

### Etymology 3

1909, from the name of the American company Coca-Cola and the beverage it produced; the drink was named for two of its original ingredients, coca leaves and cola nut.

#### Noun

coke (plural cokes)
* (uncountable, informal) Alternative letter-case form of Coke (cola-based soft drink, especially Coca-Cola).
* (countable, informal) Alternative letter-case form of Coke (a serving of cola-based soft drink, especially Coca-Cola).
* (US, chiefly Southern US, New Mexico, informal) Alternative letter-case form of Coke (any soft drink, regardless of type).

##### Synonyms

* (soft drink): see the list at soda

##### Derived terms

* coke bottle (coke-bottle)
* coke float

##### Translations
### Derived terms

* go and eat coke

### References

* Douglas Harper (2001–2025) “coke”, in Online Etymology Dictionary.

## Dutch
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /koːk/
* Hyphenation: coke
* Rhymes: -oːk
* Homophone: kook

### Etymology 1

Borrowed from English coke.

#### Noun

coke m (plural cokes)
* (chiefly in the plural) coke (type of processed carbon used as fuel)

##### Usage notes

The singular is less common than the plural form in Dutch, which may also be used like an uncountable singular.

### Etymology 2

Unadapted borrowing from English coke.

#### Noun

coke m (uncountable)
* (slang) Synonym of cocaïne

## French
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /kɔk/

### Etymology 1

Borrowed from English coke (“residue from roasting in a coal oven”).

#### Noun

coke m (plural cokes)
* coke (form of carbon)

##### Derived terms

* cokerie

### Etymology 2

Borrowed from English coke (“cocaine”).

#### Noun

coke f (plural cokes)
* coke (cocaine)
    Synonym: cocaïne

### Further reading

* “coke”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

## Italian
### Noun

coke m (invariable)
* coke (form of carbon)

### Anagrams

* ceko

## Middle English
### Noun

coke
* Alternative form of colk

## Tagalog
### Alternative forms

* kok — proscribed

### Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English Coke, clipping of Coca-Cola.

### Pronunciation

* (Standard Tagalog) IPA: /ˈkowk/ [ˈkoʊ̯k], /ˈkok/ [ˈkok̚]
* Rhymes: -owk, -ok
* Syllabification: coke

### Noun

coke (Baybayin spelling ᜃᜓᜏ᜔ᜃ᜔ or ᜃᜓᜃ᜔)
* Cola (cola-based soft drink, especially Coca-Cola)