Coke
Appearance
See also: coke
English
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Audio (US): (file) - (General American, Canada) IPA(key): /koʊk/
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /kəʊk/
- Rhymes: -oʊk, -əʊk
Etymology 1
[edit]Clipping of Coca-Cola. See coke (“cola”).
Alternative forms
[edit]Noun
[edit]Coke (countable and uncountable, plural Cokes)
- (countable, uncountable, informal) Cola-based soft drink; (in particular) Coca-Cola.
- (countable, informal) A bottle, glass or can of Coca-Cola or a cola-based soft drink.
- 1951, J. D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye, Boston, Mass.: Little, Brown and Company, →OCLC, page 168:
- 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.
- 1958, Franklin Martin, “The Trouble with Mrs. Benton”, in Venus, volume 1, number 1, Garden of Eve Publications, page 16:
- 'You have a coke and I'll have a beer and we can talk business.'
- (US, especially Southern US, informal) Any soft drink, regardless of type.
Synonyms
[edit]- (soft drink): see the list at soda
Translations
[edit]informal: any cola-flavored drink
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Coca-Cola
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informal: any soft drink
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Etymology 2
[edit]Proper noun
[edit]Coke
- A surname
Derived terms
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- Rhymes:English/oʊk
- Rhymes:English/oʊk/1 syllable
- Rhymes:English/əʊk
- Rhymes:English/əʊk/1 syllable
- English clippings
- English lemmas
- English nouns
- English uncountable nouns
- English countable nouns
- English informal terms
- English terms with quotations
- American English
- Southern US English
- English proper nouns
- English surnames
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