coke

name

1. A surname

noun

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

1. Cola-based soft drink; (in particular) Coca-Cola.
2. A bottle, glass or can of Coca-Cola or a cola-based soft drink.

   “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.”

   “'You have a coke and I'll have a beer and we can talk business.'”

3. Any soft drink, regardless of type.

verb

Etymology: The origin is not certain. The OED says it is first attested in 1669. The MED has an earlier attestation in the related sense of "charcoal" in 1430: Middle English coke. This may be the same word as colk (“core”) (perhaps from the notion that coke is the core of the material left after it burning), 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”). If so, cognate with Saterland Frisian Kolk (“maelstrom, depression, whirlpool”), West Frisian kolk (“maelstrom, whirlpool”), Dutch kolk (“maelstrom, vortex, whirlpool”), German Kolk (“pothole”).

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

   “In kerolox engines, some of the fuel flow cokes in the engine's cooling passages over time, requiring thorough cleaning prior to reuse.”