coke

Meaning

Noun

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.

Verb

1. (transitive) To produce coke from coal.
2. (intransitive) To turn into coke.
3. (especially) To add deleterious carbon deposits as a byproduct of combustion.

Synonyms

cocaine

snow

❄️

nose candy

blow

coal

charred coal

coca

C

soda

pop

refreshments

scorched

soda pop

soft drink

soft drinks

toot

white horse

carbonated drink

Charlie

coal dregs

street drug

chark

white lady

coking coal

gack

Bolivian marching powder

yola

tonic

fizzy drink

burnt

carbon

charcoal

charred

cheng

cocain

dust

opium

Translations

coke

Koks

coque

coke

verkoken

coque

neige

❄️

cokéfier

cocaína

cokes

coca

cocaína

Kokain

cocaïne

Pronounced as (IPA)

/kəʊk/

Etymology

Inherited from Middle English: colk

In summary

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”).