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Cocaine vs Cocoa - What's the difference?

cocaine | cocoa |

As a verb cocaine

is .

As an adjective cocaine

is addicted to, or using cocaine.

As a proper noun cocoa is

(computing) an object-oriented programming api for mac os x.

cocaine

English

Noun

  • (uncountable) A stimulant narcotic, derived from cultivated plants of the genus , in the form of a white powder that users generally self-administer by insufflation through the nose.
  • (countable) Any derivative of cocaine.
  • Synonyms

    * (slang) blow, Bolivian marching powder, boots, California corn flakes, charlie, coke, girl, nose candy, powder, rock, slim, snow, snuff, white lady, yayo or yeyo, yola * See also

    See also

    * crack * snort

    Anagrams

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    cocoa

    English

    Etymology 1

    of (etyl) (m).

    Noun

    (wikipedia cocoa)
  • (label) the dried and partially fermented fatty seeds of the cacao tree from which chocolate is made
  • (label) an unsweetened brown powder made from roasted, ground cocoa beans, used in making chocolate, and in cooking.
  • (label) a hot drink made with milk, cocoa powder, and sugar
  • (label) a cup or mug of this drink
  • (label) a light to medium brown colour
  • Quotations
    ``A Food Lover's Companion'' by Evan Jones (Harper & Row, 1979) includes this poem by Stanley J. Sharpless: : Half past nine - high time for supper; : ``Cocoa , love? ``Of course, my dear. : Helen thinks it quite delicious, : John prefers it now to beer.... : For they've stumbled on the secret : Of a love that never wanes, : Rapt beneath the tumbled bedclothes, : Cocoa coursing through their veins.
    Synonyms
    * (hot drink) chocolate, drinking chocolate, hot chocolate
    Derived terms
    {{der3, cocoa bean , cocoa butter , cocoa-payol , cocoa powder}}

    Adjective

    (-)
  • of a light to medium brown colour, like that of cocoa powder
  • Etymology 2

    See (m).

    Noun

  • (label) Another spelling of .
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