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coke
English
Pronunciation
en LL-Q1860 (eng)-Flame, not lame-Coke.wav US
en /koʊk/ GA,Canada
en /kəʊk/ RP
en oʊk əʊk 1
Etymology 1
en soda :clipping Coca-Cola 1
en Coca-Cola. See en coke cola.
Alternative forms
en coke
Noun
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en countable uncountable informal Cola-based soft drink; en in particular Coca-Cola.
en countable informal A bottle, glass or can of Coca-Cola or a cola-based soft drink.
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.
en Franklin Martin The Trouble with Mrs. Benton Venus Garden of Eve Publications 1958 1 1 16 'You have a coke and I'll have a beer and we can talk business.'
en US especially Southern US informal proprietary eponym Any soft drink, regardless of type.
Synonyms
soft drink see the list at en soda
Derived terms
en cokebottle Cokelore Diet Coke MexiCoke Sproke
Descendants
pon Kouk 1
Translations
informal: any cola-flavored drink
Armenian: hy կոլա
Bulgarian: bg кола f
Chinese:
Cantonese: yue 可樂 ho2 lok6
Hakka: hak 可樂 khó-lá, khó-là
Hokkien: nan-hbl 可樂 khó-lo̍k
Mandarin: cmn 可樂 kělè
Danish: da cola c
Estonian: et koola
Finnish: fi kokis
French: fr coca m, fr Coke Quebec
German: de Cola f n
Hebrew: he קולה f kóla
Hindi: hi कोक f
Icelandic: is kók f
Italian: it cola f
Japanese: ja コーラ kōra
Korean: ko 콜라
Norwegian: no cola m
Portuguese: pt coca f, pt cola f
Spanish: es cola f, es cola f bebida de cola, es refresco de cola m
Swedish: sv kola
Turkish: tr kola
Yoruba: yo kóòkì
Coca-Cola
Arabic: ar كُولَا kulā f
Armenian: hy կոլա
Chinese:
Mandarin: cmn 可樂
Cornish: kw kok m
Czech: cs kola f
Danish: da cola c
Dutch: nl cola m
Estonian: et koka
Finnish: fi kokis
French: fr coca m
German: de Cola f n, de Coca-Cola f n
Hungarian: hu kóla
Italian: it Coca f
Marathi: mr कोक
Portuguese: pt coca f
Russian: ru ко́ла f
Scottish Gaelic: gd còc m
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: sh кола f
Latin: sh kola f
Spanish: es coca f, es coke f, es Coca-Cola f
Swedish: sv cola c, sv coca c, sv cokis
Thai: th โค้ก
Ukrainian: uk ко́ла f kóla
Vietnamese: vi coca
Welsh: cy côc m
Yoruba: yo kóòkì
informal: any soft drink
Estonian: et karastusjook
Finnish: fi limu
Portuguese: pt refri
Etymology 2
Proper noun
en
Derived terms
en Coke's hartebeest
en Coke hat
en genericized trademarks
en Beverages