Coke

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• (General American, Canada) IPA^(key): /koʊk/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /kəʊk/
• Rhymes: -oʊk, -əʊk

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

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Coke (countable and uncountable, plural Cokes)

1. (countable, uncountable, informal) Cola-based soft drink; (in particular) Coca-Cola.
2. (countable, informal) A bottle, glass or can of Coca-Cola or a cola-based soft drink.
   • 1951 July 16, J[erome] D[avid] Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye, Boston, Mass.: Little, Brown and Company, →OCLC, page 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.

   • 1958, Franklin Martin, “The Trouble with Mrs. Benton”, in Venus, volume 1, number 1, Garden of Eve Publications, page 16:

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

3. (US, especially Southern US, informal) Any soft drink, regardless of type.

• (soft drink): see the list at soda

Coke

1. A surname

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