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Coke

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English

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Pronunciation

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Etymology 1

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Clipping of Coca-Cola. See coke (cola).

Alternative forms

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Noun

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Coke (countable and uncountable, plural Cokes)

  1. (countable, uncountable, informal) Cola-based soft drink; (in particular) Coca-Cola.
  2. (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.'
  3. (US, especially Southern US, informal) Any soft drink, regardless of type.
Synonyms
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  • (soft drink): see the list at soda
Translations
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Etymology 2

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Proper noun

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Coke

  1. A surname
Derived terms
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