stoked
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adjective Slang.
1.
exhilarated; excited.
2.
intoxicated or stupefied with a drug; high.
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verb (used with object)
1.
to poke, stir up, and feed (a fire).
2.
to tend the fire of (a furnace, especially one used with a boiler to generate steam for an engine); supply with fuel.
verb (used without object)
3.
to shake up the coals of a fire.
4.
to tend a fire or furnace.
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World English Dictionary
stoke (stəʊk) ![[Click for IPA pronunciation guide]](http://static.sfdict.com/dictstatic/g/d/dictionary_questionbutton_default.gif) | |
| —vb | |
| 1. | to feed, stir, and tend (a fire, furnace, etc) |
| 2. | (tr) to tend the furnace of; act as a stoker for |
| [C17: back formation from | |
| stoked (stəʊkt) | |
| —adj | |
| informal (NZ) very pleased; elated: really stoked to have got the job | |
| stokes or stoke (stəʊks) | |
| —n | |
| St the cgs unit of kinematic viscosity, equal to the viscosity of a fluid in poise divided by its density in grams per cubic centimetre. 1 stokes is equivalent to 10--4 square metre per second | |
| [C20: named after Sir George Stokes (1819--1903), British physicist] | |
| stoke or stoke | |
| —n | |
| [C20: named after Sir George Stokes (1819--1903), British physicist] | |
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Etymonline
Word Origin & History
stoke
1660 (implied in stoker), "to feed and stir up a fire in a fireplace," from Du. stoken "to stoke," from M.Du. stoken "to poke, thrust," related to stoc "stick, stump," from P.Gmc. *stok-, variant of *stik-, *stek- "pierce, prick" (see stick (v.)). Stoked "enthusiastic" first
recorded 1902; revived in surfer slang 1963.
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American Heritage
Medical Dictionary
stoke (stōk)
n.
A unit of kinematic viscosity equal to that of a fluid with a viscosity of one poise and a density of one gram per milliliter.
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Slang Dictionary
stoked (on (so or sth)) definition
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Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions by Richard A. Spears.Fourth Edition.
Copyright 2007. Published by McGraw Hill.
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Example sentences
Economics focus finds little evidence that it stoked the financial crisis.
We were certainly stoked that you can shoot video until you run out of space on your card.
For what has stoked their fires isn't flesh or cash but stack upon precious stack of manga.
It stoked conspiracy theories, and vaccination rates plunged dangerously.
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