## Meanings
1. A glass, bottle, or can of cola, especially Coca-Cola.
2. A solid black fuel made by heating coal, used mainly in making steel.
3. An informal name for the illegal drug cocaine.

## Examples
- She ordered a coke with her burger.
- The furnace burned tonnes of coke each day.
- He was arrested for selling coke.

## Derived Forms
- coking
- decoke
- decoking

## Roots and Affixes
- Root: coke
- Root: *colc
- Root: *kolk
- Root: *kulukaz
- Root: *g(ʷ)el-

## Etymology
The origin is not certain. The OED says it is first attested in 1669. The MED has an earlier attestation in the related sense of "charcoal" in 1430: Middle English coke. This may be the same word as colk (“core”) (perhaps from the notion that coke is the core of the material left after it burning), from Old English *colc (“hole, well”), from Proto-West Germanic *kolk, from Proto-Germanic *kulukaz (“a hollow, depression”), from Proto-Indo-European *g(ʷ)el- (“to swallow, devour; gullet”). If so, cognate with Saterland Frisian Kolk (“maelstrom, depression, whirlpool”), West Frisian kolk (“maelstr…

## AI Etymology
coke is a verb and noun. The origin is not certain. The OED says it is first attested in 1669. The MED has an earlier attestation in the related sense of "charcoal" in 1430: Middle English coke. This may be the same word as colk (“core”) (perhaps from the notion that coke is the core of the material left after it burning), from Old English *colc (“hole, well”), from Proto-West Germanic *kolk, from Proto-Germanic *kulukaz (“a hollow, depression”), from Proto-Indo-European *g(ʷ)el- (“to swallow, devour; gullet”). Historical forms in the chain include coke (Middle English), *colc (Old English), *kolk (Proto-West Germanic), *kulukaz (Proto-Germanic), and *g(ʷ)el- (Proto-Indo-European). Current senses include a glass, bottle, or can of cola, especially Coca-Cola, a solid black fuel made by heating coal, used mainly in making steel, and an informal name for the illegal drug cocaine. Derived forms include coking, decoke, and decoking.

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