Green’s Dictionary of Slang

1. a man [bloke n. (3)].

1856		H. Mayhew Great World of London I 5: Splodger, will you [...] blow your yard of tripe of nosey-me-knacker, while we have a touch of the broads with some other heaps of coke at my drum.
1861		(con. 1840s–50s) H. Mayhew London Labour and London Poor I 418/1: [as cit. 1856].
1877		J. Diprose London Life 74: [as cit. 1856].
1880		D.W. Barrett Life and Work among Navvies 43: Look out, here comes a heap of coke.
1909		J. Ware Passing Eng. of the Victorian Era 151/2: Some heaps o’ coke haven’t got an ounce of cheek in them until they’re flatch kennurd, but they ain’t worth calling into account. [Ibid.] Heapy (Rhyming). Bloke (a chum).
1919		T.A. Dorgan in Zwilling TAD Lex. (1993) 43: Its the rhyming slang. Heap o’ coke that’s a bloke.
1928		M.C. Sharpe Chicago May: Her Story in Hamilton (1952) 132: Heap of coke – bloke.
1935		A.J. Pollock Und. Speaks.
1935		Thieves Slang ms list from District Police Training Centre, Ryton-on-Dunsmore, Warwicks n.p.: Coke (a heap of coke): A person whose identity it is desired to conceal.
1960		J. Franklyn Dict. of Rhy. Sl.
1972		Dodson & Saczek Dict. of Cockney Rhy. Sl.
1981		P. Wright Cockney Dialect and Sl. 95: The other heaps of coke (blokes).
1992		R. Puxley Cockney Rabbit.

2. a loaf .

1928

Bath Chron. 4 Aug. 25/6: The proprietor of a small City restaurant rattled off the following [...] ‘mysteries,’ sausages [...] ‘heap of coke,’ a loaf.