coke
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.
Example
“The plant should produce approximately 550,000 tons of screened blast furnace coke per year.”
Other meanings
any soft drink, regardless of type.
cola-based soft drink, especially Coca-Cola.
A kind of
- fuel
Related words
- go and eat coke
Example sentences
Word history
From Middle English "coke".
Where this comes from
This definition is adapted from “coke” on Wiktionary, by its contributors; example sentences are from Tatoeba, credited to their authors above; related-word lists use Open English WordNet (CC BY 4.0, based on Princeton WordNet), published under CC BY-SA 4.0. This page is published under the same licence.