: the residue of coal left after destructive distillation and used as fuel
also
: a similar residue left by other materials (such as petroleum) distilled to dryness
coked; coking
: to change into coke
: to become coke or like coke
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Richard Brody, New Yorker, 19 Dec. 2025
The man in the coke-bottle glasses was instructed by the other to shoot my dad.
—Gail Zimmerman, CBS News, 16 Dec. 2025
Ivana Kottasová, CNN Money, 8 Nov. 2025
Developing a facility akin to the coking coal plant in Pokrovsk in eastern Ukraine -- which is the largest enterprise in Ukraine -- would require around $10 billion.
—David Brennan, ABC News, 26 Feb. 2025
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Noun
Hip-Hop In the late nineties, the brothers Terrence and Gene Thornton, who rapped as Pusha T and Malice, surfaced from Virginia Beach as the coke-rap auteurs Clipse, under the stewardship of the Neptunes production team.
—Richard Brody, New Yorker, 19 Dec. 2025
The man in the coke-bottle glasses was instructed by the other to shoot my dad.
—Gail Zimmerman, CBS News, 16 Dec. 2025
Verb
The city also hosted Ukraine’s last operating coking coal mine, but it was forced to shut down early this year.
—Ivana Kottasová, CNN Money, 8 Nov. 2025
Developing a facility akin to the coking coal plant in Pokrovsk in eastern Ukraine -- which is the largest enterprise in Ukraine -- would require around $10 billion.
—David Brennan, ABC News, 26 Feb. 2025
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“Coke.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/coke. Accessed 23 Dec. 2025.
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