coke n.1
(drugs)1. (also coc, coco) cocaine.
![[US]](/static/img/flags/us.png "United States") | Paducah Sun (KY) 12 Apr. 1/7: ‘Coke’ must go [...] The demoralizing habit of using cocaine, or what is known among the fiends as ‘coke’. | |
![[UK]](/static/img/flags/uk.png "United Kingdom") | Following the Colour Line 47: They buy the ‘coke’ in the form of a powder and snuff it up the nose. | |
| Constance Dunlap 296: ‘Sleighbells’ seemed to have disposed of all the ‘coke’ he had brought with him. As the last packet went, he rose slowly and shuffled out. | |
| (con. 1914) Dope-Darling 69: Shall I take some coc? | |
| Mrs. ’Arris 169: ‘Dope!’ I wails as I shoot by [...] ‘Coco!’ I gurgles, whizzing past. | |
| Jim Maitland (1953) 59: I don’t go in for opium or coke or any other rotten dope. | |
![[Aus]](/static/img/flags/aus.png "Australia") | Burrowa News (NSW) 24 June 7/4: ‘Angie,’ is the vernacular expression for ‘angel’s food,’ or ‘coke,’ which is cocaine. Taken in the powder form, one packet usually contains enough for four ‘sniffs,’ and costs 10/-. | |
| ‘Snowbound’ in Gangster Stories Oct. n.p.: I picked up the bindles of coke. | |
| Rough Stuff 39: From then on he used to indulge in coke (as cocaine is always called). | |
| Phenomena in Crime 87: His little packets of coke forged links between Soho and Mayfair. | |
| ‘Observation Post’ in N.Y. Age 26 Apr. 9/7: Solid, now, bloke; forget your ‘coke’. Put out that ‘roach’ and dig me. | |
| Narrows 293: She must have figured he was sniffing coke. | |
| Oz 2 13/4: Heroin (£1 to £3 per grain) coke, meths (5/- an ampoule). | |
| Stand (1990) 336: Old lags with gray in their beards and big coke-burned holes where their septa used to be. | |
| Black Tide (2012) [ebook] Then there was the violence. And the coke. He was just barely in control. | |
| Guardian Rev. 29 Oct. 22: A coke-sniffing medallion man who dances in his bath. | |
| Soothing Music for Stray Cats 64: Smoking cigarettes looks pretty cool, whereas shoving coke up yer snout, well, that’s just plain nasty. | |
| Life 5: There were plastic bags full of coke and grass, peyote and mescaline. | |
| (con. 1969-1973) Big Whatever 25: People weren’t so interested in powder drugs, especially coke. | |
![[Ire]](/static/img/flags/ire.png "Ireland") | Glorious Heresies 29: Birthdays passed, coke passed, crises passed. | |
| Lives Laid Away [ebook] ‘The guy at the strip club had a nose full of coke’. | |
| ‘Sunset’ in Broken 177: Coke didn’t give him the rush it used to. |
2. attrib. use of sense 1.
| S.F. Call 27 Nov. 3/2: We found an 18 year old boy who was a victim of the ‘coke’ habit. He had a package of ‘snow’ in his pocket. | |
| New Call (Perth, WA) 17 Dec. 1/1: Most of them took to the ‘coke’ or ‘snow’ racket. | |
| Skin Tight 24: Wedged under a tiny headline between a one-ton coke bust and a double homicide. | |
| Crosskill [ebook] He had coke and gambling habits. | |
| Layer Cake 9: I didn’t leave school wanting to be a coke dealer. | |
| Leaving Bondi (2013) [ebook] ‘He was a small-time coke dealer’. | |
| Running the Books 4: Gun-toting gangbangers and coke dealers. | |
| Orphan Road 14: ‘Don’t worry, Gary, the coke is for down time only [...] I’m always clean when I work’. |
3. a cocaine user.
 | Gold Coast 123: Then there are the ‘cokes’, ‘snowbirds’ they call them, who will pawn everything they have for a shot [HDAS]. | |
| Brain Guy (1937) 257: He was a coke, he’d noticed that when he was smacking his jaw. The punches under the eyes. | |
| (ref. to 1918) Over the Wall 21: Hopheads or cokes – the cocaine addicts on the snow. |
4. any injectable opiate drug, usu. morphine or heroin.
| Gunner Depew 77: ‘Gimme a deck of the stuff. Dope out the coke, Doc, dope out the old coke. Tell me, do I croak, Doc?’ . | |
| White Moll 175: ‘I got to have me bit of coke,’ Pinkie answered, with a shrug of his shoulders. ‘An’, anyway, I’m no pipe-hitter.’. |
5. crack cocaine.
| ‘If I Ruled the World’ 🎵 You know he tried to escape and smoked the coke on the pipe. | |
| Crackhouse 75: The taste of the coke when you’re smoking it enhances the rush of the high. | |
| Corner (1998) 532: DeAndre was on the pipe, at one point going through an entire half ounce of coke [...] in a single evening. | |
| ONDCP Street Terms 6: Coke — [...] Crack Cocaine. |
6. see cokie n. (2)
In compounds
a mixture of hashish/marijuana and cocaine, made into a cigarette when rolled in a tobacco leaf, taken from the wrapper of a Phillies Blunt cigar.
| ‘Is The Source Brand No Longer In Demand’ on UrbanExposé 🌐 They gave him a 40, a coke blunt, and let him squeeze the ass of the local chicken... he was hooked. |
(drugs) a non-existent insect which a cocaine addict believes is crawling on their skin.
| Life 397: He was into coke bugs [...] People had been calling him mad for weeks because he was conviced that he was infected by bugs. | |
| Happy Mutant Baby Pills 64: On cocaine they crawl back and burrow under your skin. Coke bugs! |
(Aus. drugs) a cocaine dealer.
| Sun. Mail (Brisbane) 13 Nov. 20/7: Cocaine peddlers are termed ‘angie-droppers’ amongst the elect, or less frequently ‘coke-droppers’ . |
a cocaine addict or user.
| ‘Dying to See Willie’ in Popular Detective Mar. 🌐 Fats McGlone on the radio wouldn’t swallow that coke-eater’s dream. |
(drugs) a cocaine user.
| S.F. Examiner 13 May 11/7: [headline] dope and coke fiends / The Lost Wretches Who Cannot Live Without Morphine or Cocaine. | |
| Paducah Sun (KY) 12 Apr. 1/7: All coke fiends will be arrested and made to tell where they procured their coke. | |
| Spokane Press (WA) 7 Aug. 2/3: Thomas [...] has become a missionary among ther ‘coke’ fiends of the Tenderloin. | |
| Wretches of Povertyville 181: Many of the opium fiends are also ‘coke’ fiends or cocaine habitues. This drug is snuffed up the nose and produces a mild stimulation, followed by intense depression. | |
| Constance Dunlap 295: ‘Why, they call him Sleighbells Charley,’ he replied, ‘a coke fiend.’ ‘Which means a cocaine fiend, I suppose?’ she queried. | |
![[Can]](/static/img/flags/can.png "Canada") | ‘The Co-Co Fiend’ in Ballads of a Bohemian (1978) 498: The CoCo-Fiend [...] Here’s where Heav’n begins: Cocaine! Cocaine! | |
| (con. 1900) Journal Amer. Instit. of Criminal Law and Criminology X Jan. 62–70: One can tell a hop-head by his eyes. A coke fiend is spotted by his quick turns and active movements. A morphinist has a brittle complexion. A smoker has a yellowish tinge. | |
| Truth (Brisbane) 22 June 12/5: ‘[T]he doper is forced to increase the dose constantly,-until only the pure crystals, termed by the ‘coke’ fiends ‘snow,’ will satisfy’. | |
| London and its Criminals 254: The cocaine habit is spreading, a peculiar characteristic of the ‘coke’ fiend being an intense anxiety to pass on the vice. | |
| Criminal Sl. (rev. edn). | |
| Narcotics Lingo and Lore. | |
| Mad mag. Jan. 37: You’re buying them [i.e. empty ideas] like coke fiends buy tissues. | |
| Stingray Shuffle 133: The legitimate customers began mixing with the coke fiends in the book line. |
(drugs) a regular usual of cocaine.
| (con. 1985–90) In Search of Respect 67: Instead of coke freaks, crackheads, and heroin junkies [...] it was alcoholics who were harassing patrons. | |
![[SA]](/static/img/flags/sa.png "South Africa") | Acid Alex 212: The Jesus Coke Freak is here too [...] doing eight to ten for cocaine. |
(drugs) a regular cocaine user; also as adj.; thus coke-headed adj.
| Hobo 67: Not infrequently ‘coke heads’ or ‘snow-birds’ are found among the hobo workers. | |
| ‘Big Boy, they Can’t Do That’ 🎵 When I run and get clipped, by a coke-headed dip, / At the time you ain’t got no dough. | |
| ‘Facing the Mob’ in Gangland Stories Feb. 🌐 It goes down damn hard to have every cheap mobsman in town razzing us for having a boss, that’ll let some coke-headed broad make him jump through a hoop. | |
| Rough Stuff 146: It is known that a bunch of insane coke-heads and drug-users have inflicted brutal punishment. | |
| Criminal Sl. (rev. edn). | |
| Narcotics Lingo and Lore. | |
| Drugs from A to Z (1970). | |
| Q&A 98: I don’t want these two coke heads near me. | |
| Close Pursuit (1988) 18: Don’t for Christ’s sake hire midgets, or twits, or cokeheads, or petty criminals. | |
| ‘Racist Yes, Sexist Fine’ in What Do You Reckon (1997) [ebook] Smackies gotta have a hit of heroin, cokeheads gotta have a line. | |
| Workin’ It 93: People just sit around either nodding or bugging, you know, if they’re coke heads. | |
| (con. 1986) Sweet Forever 32: Clay watched Karras go back and talk to his cokehead girl. | |
| Powder 155: He was an unlikely cokehead, but he had a mission to be down with whatever was going on. | |
![[Scot]](/static/img/flags/sco.png "Scotland") | Be My Enemy 98: That nasty cokehead brother of his. | |
| Viva La Madness 41: Cokeheads are liabilities [...] Dangerous! Madheads! | |
| Corruption Officer [ebk] cap. 31: Word is that she is a cokehead and is giving up head and ass for cash. | |
| Glorious Heresies 221: Shakespeare made a cokehead suck his piss from a handful of bog roll. | |
| Dead Man’s Trousers 120: Where is that cokehead bum N-Sign. | |
| Hitmen 100: Eric and Keith [...] were cokeheads. |
(drugs) paranoid hallucinogenic delusions occasioned by an excessive/long-term use of cocaine.
| Naked Lunch (1968) 36: One morning you wake up and take a speed ball and feel black bugs under your skin. 1890 cops with black moustaches block the doors [...] Junkies march through the room singing the Moslem Funeral Song [...] It’s the coke horrors. |
(drugs) a cocaine user.
| ‘Goldfish’ in Red Wind (1946) 149: He’s a coke-hound and he talks in his sleep. | |
| www.washingtonfreepress.org Jan.–Feb. #43 🌐 Following are excerpts from an unpublished interview between Irvine Welsh’s American stepbrother, Irwin, and Presidential candidate/accused cokehound George W. Bush, Jr. | |
| www.thrillingdetective.com 🌐 Any fan of the mystery genre owes the old cokehound [i.e. Sherlock Holmes] a debt of gratitude. |
(drugs) the nail of a single finger that is allowed to grow disproportionately long and which can thus be used to scoop up cocaine for inhalation.
| Boy from County Hell 273: Like she wouldn’t hear from working girls about why their man had a stub where his coke nail used to be? |
(US drugs) a place where one buys cocaine.
| Amer. Thes. Sl. | |
| Traffic In Narcotics 307: coke-oven. A place where cocaine is sold. | |
| Drug Lang. and Lore. |
(drugs) the after-effects of a cocaine binge; also attrib.
| (con. 1986) Sweet Forever 108: A sick, pale rider with an awful case of cokeover depression. | |
| Beside Myself 168: By the time I reached home I had a streaming nose and another of those thunderous depressions, cocaine’s version of a hangover – I called it a coke-over. |
(drugs) a party at which the principal aim is to consume cocaine.
| Hop-Heads 66: There’s always a coke party on down here after 1 and 2 in the morning. | |
| Amer. Tramp and Und. Sl. 52: Coke Party. – A gathering at which cocaine or some other drug furnishes the stimulation usually found in liquor. |
a regular cocaine user.
| Guardian Weekend 19 June 25: A 20-stone, self-confessed cokeslut. |
(US police/Und.) the Narcotics Squad.
| Marion Star (OH) 3 Apr. 17/1: The Narcotics Squad [...] the ‘Coke Squad’ as it is best known. |
(US black) the ‘evil eye’, a deliberately aggressive and unpleasant look.
| Runnin’ Down Some Lines 108: The evil eye, or the coke stare. | |
| Straight Outta Compton 14: Clive’s daddy shouted. he sent Clive a coke stare. |
(drugs) sweat that indicates an excessive use of cocaine.
| Firing Offense 1: A poster of the mayor, a smiling portrait in debauchery, was taped to the window [...] The coke sweat had been dutifully airbrushed from the mayor's forehead. | |
| Missing Husband [ebook] Traces of it [i.e. cocaine] frosted his nostrils, his eyes were huge and she could smell the rank coke sweat on his body. |
(US prison) cocaine dissolved in water.
| Female Convict (1960) 131: She had been drinking ‘cokewater’ (cocaine dissolved in water) for several days. |
In phrases
(drugs) to inhale cocaine; thus coke-blower, a cocaine sniffer.
| Keys to Crookdom 403: Drug addict [...] coke-blower. | |
| (con. 1900s) Man’s Grim Justice 25: It was in reform school that I first heard of drug users, ‘coke blowers,’ [...] the boys who sniffed cocaine. | |
| Criminal Sl. (rev. edn). | |
| Traffic In Narcotics 306: blow coke, blow snow. To take cocaine by sniffing it up the nostrils. | |
| Narcotics Lingo and Lore. | |
| Collura (1978) 182: Hey, man, you wanna blow some coke while we doin’ business. | |
| ONDCP Street Terms 3: Blow coke — To inhale cocaine. |
1. (drugs) to take cocaine.
| Green Ice (1988) 29: Red’s been coking up. | |
| 8 Ball Chicks (1998) 130: There was a BC party, everyone coked up, and he was sitting on the floor with this BC chick. |
2. to consume any drug.
| False Starts 278: You coke up on those devil drugs. |