Coke vs Cuke - What's the difference?
coke | cuke |
(uncountable) Solid residue from roasting coal in a coke oven; used principally as a fuel and in the production of steel and formerly as a domestic fuel.
* The plant should produce approximately 550,000 tons of screened blast furnace coke per year.
To produce coke from coal.
To turn into coke.
(informal, slang, uncountable) Cocaine.
(informal) A cucumber
*{{quote-news, year=2007, date=August 2, author=Anne Raver, title=Nature Red in Tooth, Claw and Carapace, work=New York Times
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* 2009 , Dev Patnaik, Peter Mortensen, Wired to care: how companies prosper when they create widespread empathy
As nouns the difference between coke and cuke
is that coke is solid residue from roasting coal in a coke oven; used principally as a fuel and in the production of steel and formerly as a domestic fuel while cuke is a cucumber.As a verb coke
is to produce coke from coal.coke
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Etymology 1
Perhaps from (etyl) colke .Noun
(-)Derived terms
*biocokeVerb
Etymology 2
Originated circa 1908 in American English as a shortening of cocaine .Noun
(-)See also
* cocaEtymology 3
1909, from the name of the American company Coca-Cola'' and the beverage it produced; the drink was named for two of its original ingredients, ''coca'' leaves and ''cola nut.Synonyms
* (soft drink) see the list at (m)References
* http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?term=coke ----cuke
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(en noun)citation
- By the time she was nine, Nina was traveling to distant markets on her own to sell her family's fresh tomatoes, beans, squash, zukes, cukes , peppers