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noun
1.
the solid product resulting from the destructive distillation of coal in an oven or closed chamber or by imperfect combustion, consisting principally of carbon: used chiefly as a fuel in metallurgy to reduce metallic oxides to metals.
verb (used with object), verb (used without object)
2.
to convert into or become coke.
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| an arrangement of five objects, as trees, in a square or rectangle, one at each corner and one in the middle. |
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Etymonline
Word Origin & History
coke
1699, northern Eng. dial., perhaps a variant of M.E. colke "core, charcoal," itself possibly related to -colc, an O.E. word for "pit." The soft drink name is a shortening (first recorded 1909) of brand name Coca-Cola, trademark from 1887. As a shortened form of cocaine it dates from 1908, Amer.Eng.
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Medical Dictionary
coke (kōk)
n.
Cocaine.
The American Heritage® Stedman's Medical Dictionary
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