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\ ¦kōkt-ˈəp 
\
\variants:
or less commonly coked \ ¦kōkt \
\Definition of coked-up
informal
: high on cocaine Depending on whom you listen to, he was either too lazy, too broke or too coked-up to go out on assignment …— Anna Quindlen, Newsweek, 2 June 2003 Two men, two friends, enter a place of business, both—to use the vernacular—coked to the gills.— Lucius Shepard, Playboy, September 1986
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