cokes

1. 1
   noun

   Plural of coke.

   She grabbed a couple of cokes from the fridge before the game started.

   We stopped at a gas station for chips and two cokes.

   Note

   A regular -s plural, and in everyday speech it usually counts servings of soda: two burgers and two cokes. In Southern US speech the word can take in soft drinks of any flavor, so a cooler of cokes may hold root beer and ginger ale as well as cola. Written this way, with a small c, it is the casual, generic word rather than the brand.

2. 2
   verb

   Third-person singular present of coke.

   The plant cokes about a thousand tons of coal a day for the nearby steel mill.

   Kerosene that cokes at high temperatures can clog a rocket engine's cooling channels.

   Note

   The present form after he, she or it, and it works with or without an object. With one it describes a plant processing coal (the mill cokes its own coal); without one it describes a fuel that leaves carbon behind as it burns (this kerosene cokes at high heat), a fault engineers watch for in car and rocket engines.

3. 3
   nounobsolete

   A simple-minded person, or someone who is easily fooled.

   Because he is an ass, and may be akin to the Cokeses?

   1614, Ben Jonson, Bartholmew Fayre: A Comedie

   Note

   Despite the final -s, this is a single person, and its own plural was cokeses. Ben Jonson has a character ask, in 1614, "Because he is an ass, and may be akin to the Cokeses?" The word may be related to coax, which suits a dupe, someone easily talked into things. It is long obsolete, a word to recognize in old plays rather than to use.

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