Green’s Dictionary of Slang

shoke n.

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(US) a derog. term for a black person.

[US]N. Algren Somebody in Boots 185: Goddamned if I don’t think you deserved ninety days, hookin’ up with some young shoke that way. [Ibid.] 193: Ol’ Nubby like to’ve killed that young shoke.