coke

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The cost for this plus 2 waters, an iced tea and a coke was almost $30.00 with tax.

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  1. noun The solid residue of impure carbon obtained from bituminous coal and other carbonaceous materials after removal of volatile material by destructive distillation. It is used as a fuel and in making steel.
  2. transitive and intransitive verb To convert or be converted into coke.
  3. noun Cocaine.

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  1. Perhaps from Middle English colk, core.

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  1. Sometimes spelled coak; same as English dial. cokes, coaks, cinders. Cf. grindle-coke, a worn-down grindstone. Phonetically, coke may be compared with cake (cf. Low German koke, cake, and see cake); but coke does not “cake.” Hence F. coke, Spanish cok, German koaks, kohks, usually coaks, etc., coke.
  2. from coke, n.
 

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