coke

Meanings

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.
• Cocaine.
• Alternate spelling of Coke .
• Alternate spelling of Coke .
• Alternate spelling of Coke .

Verb

• To produce coke from coal.
• To turn into coke.
• To add deleterious carbon deposits as a byproduct of combustion.

Related

Similar words

• see the list at soda

Origin

• Perhaps from Middle English colk.
• Originated circa 1908 in American English as a .
• 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.