coke
Plural: cokes
Noun
- carbon fuel produced by distillation of coal
- Coca Cola is a trademarked cola
- street names for cocaine
- 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.
- Alternative letter-case form of Coke (cola-based soft drink, especially Coca-Cola).
- Alternative letter-case form of Coke (a serving of cola-based soft drink, especially Coca-Cola).
- Alternative letter-case form of Coke (any soft drink, regardless of type).
Verb
Verb Forms: coked, coking, cokes
- To convert into coke, a carbonaceous fuel.
- become coke
- "petroleum oils coke after distillation"
- To produce coke from coal.
- To turn into coke.
- To add deleterious carbon deposits as a byproduct of combustion.
Examples
- He threatened to COKE his opponent’s winning streak by playing a killer word.
- In kerolox engines, some of the fuel flow cokes in the engine's cooling passages over time, requiring thorough cleaning prior to reuse.
- The plant should produce approximately 550,000 tons of screened blast furnace coke per year.
Origin / Etymology
Perhaps from Middle English coke, colk (“core”), 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”). Cognate with Saterland Frisian Kolk (“maelstrom, depression, whirlpool”), West Frisian kolk (“maelstrom, whirlpool”), Dutch kolk (“maelstrom, vortex, whirlpool”), German Kolk (“pothole”).
Scrabble Score: 10
coke: valid Scrabble (US) TWL Wordcoke: valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
coke: valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary