Coke

See also: coke

English

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Coke

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Pronunciation

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• (General American, Canada) IPA^(key): /koʊk/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /kəʊk/
• Rhymes: -oʊk, -əʊk

Etymology 1

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

Alternative forms

• coke

Noun

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 July 16, J[erome] D[avid] 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

• (soft drink): see the list at soda

Translations

informal: any cola-flavored drink

Armenian: կոլա (hy) (kola) Bulgarian: кола (bg) f (kola) Chinese: Cantonese: 可樂 / 可乐 (ho2 lok6) Hakka: 可樂 / 可乐 (khó-lá, khó-là) Hokkien: 可樂 / 可乐 (zh-min-nan) (khó-lo̍k) Mandarin: 可樂 / 可乐 (zh) (kělè) Danish: cola (da) c Estonian: koola Finnish: kokis (fi) French: coca (fr) m, Coke (fr) (Quebec) German: Cola (de) f or n Hebrew: קולה (he) f (kóla) Hindi: कोक (hi) f (kok) Icelandic: kók (is) f Italian: coca (it) f Japanese: コーラ (ja) (kōra) Korean: 콜라 (ko) (kolla) Norwegian: cola (no) m Portuguese: coca (pt) f, cola (pt) f Spanish: cola (es) f, bebida de cola (es) f, refresco de cola m Swedish: kola (sv) Turkish: kola (tr) Yoruba: kóòkì

Coca-Cola

Arabic: كُولَا f (kulā) Armenian: կոլա (hy) (kola) Cornish: kok m Czech: kola (cs) f Danish: cola (da) c Dutch: cola (nl) m Estonian: koka Finnish: kokis (fi) French: coca (fr) m German: Cola (de) f or n, Coca-Cola (de) f or n Hungarian: kóla (hu) Marathi: कोक (kok) Portuguese: coca (pt) f Russian: ко́ла (ru) f (kóla) Scottish Gaelic: còc m Serbo-Croatian: Cyrillic: кола f Roman: kola (sh) f Spanish: coca (es) f, coke f, Coca-Cola (es) f Swedish: cola (sv) c, coca (sv) c, cokis Thai: โค้ก (th) (kóok) Vietnamese: coca (vi) Welsh: côc m Yoruba: kóòkì

informal: any soft drink

Estonian: karastusjook Finnish: limu (fi) Portuguese: refri (pt)

Etymology 2

Proper noun

Coke

1. A surname

Derived terms

• Coke's hartebeest