cocaine

See also: cocaïne and cocaïné

English

A pile of cocaine powder.

Alternative forms

• cocain (dated)
• cocaïne (obsolete)

Etymology

From coca +‎ -ine, from Quechua kuka. First use appears c. 1874.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /kə(ʊ)ˈkeɪn/

• Audio (Southern England):

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• (General American) IPA^(key): /koʊˈkeɪn/, /ˈkoʊˌkeɪn/
• Rhymes: -eɪn

Noun

cocaine (countable and uncountable, plural cocaines)

1. (uncountable, organic chemistry, pharmacology) An addictive drug derived from coca (Erythroxylum) or prepared synthetically, used sometimes medicinally as a local anesthetic and, often illegally, as a stimulant.

   Synonyms: blow, coke, girl, nose candy, powder, rock, slim, snow, snuff, white lady, yay; see also Thesaurus:cocaine

   • 1891 June 25, A[rthur] Conan Doyle, “Adventures of Sherlock Holmes. Adventure I.—A Scandal in Bohemia.”, in Geo[rge] Newnes, editor, The Strand Magazine: An Illustrated Monthly, volume II, London: George Newnes, Limited, […], published July 1891, →OCLC:

     Holmes, who loathed every form of society with his whole Bohemian soul, remained in our lodgings in Baker-street, buried among his old books, and alternating from week to week between cocaine and ambition, the drowsiness of the drug, and the fierce energy of his own keen nature.

   • 1983, “Cold Coffee & Cocaine”, performed by Prince:

     All I get, uh, is this cup of cold coffee and cocaine / And your ugly face, look out

   • 1990, Andrew Davies, Michael Dobbs, House of Cards, season 1, episode 1, spoken by Frank Urquhart (Ian Richardson):

     Cocaine’s awfully expensive stuff, isn't it? Is it worth it?

2. (countable) Any derivative of cocaine.

Derived terms

• -caine
• cocaine addict
• cocaine base
• cocaine bugs
• cocaine cowboy
• cocaine decor
• cocaine paste
• crack cocaine
• poor man's cocaine
• rock cocaine

 

Related terms

• cokehead
• hydroxytropacocaine
• tropacocaine

Translations

the narcotic

• Afrikaans: kokaïne
• Arabic: كُوكَايِين m (kukayīn)
• Armenian: կոկաին (hy) (kokain)
• Bulgarian: кокаин m (kokain)
• Burmese: ကိုကိန်း (kuikin:)
• Catalan: cocaïna (ca) f
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 可卡因 (ho² kaa¹ jan¹)

  Hakka: 古柯鹼／古柯碱 (kù-kher-chièn)

  Mandarin: 可卡因 (zh) (kěkǎyīn), 古柯鹼／古柯碱 (zh) (gǔkējiǎn)

• Cornish: kokayn m
• Czech: kokain (cs) m
• Danish: kokain
• Dutch: cocaïne (nl) m, sos (nl) c, coke (nl) c
• Esperanto: kokaino
• Estonian: kokaiin
• Faroese: kokain n
• Finnish: kokaiini (fi)
• French: cocaïne (fr) f
• Galician: cocaína f, fariña (gl) f (colloquial)
• Georgian: კოკაინი (ka) (ḳoḳaini)
• German: Kokain (de) n
• Greek: κοκαΐνη (el) f (kokaḯni)
• Hebrew: קוֹקָאִין (he) m (koka'ín)
• Hindi: कोकीन (hi) (kokīn), कोकेन (hi) f (koken)
• Hungarian: kokain (hu)
• Icelandic: kókaín n
• Ido: kokaino (io)
• Irish: cócaon m
• Italian: cocaina (it) f
• Japanese: コカイン (kokain)
• Khmer: កូកាអ៊ីន (koukaaʼiin), ខូខេន (khoukheen)
• Korean: 코카인 (ko) (kokain)
• Lao: ໂຄເຄນ (khō khēn)
• Macedonian: кокаи́н m (kokaín)
• Malay: kokain
• Marathi: कोकेन n (koken)
• Navajo: nííʼiiʼniłí
• Nepali: कोकेन (ne) (kokena)
• Norwegian: kokain m or n
• Odia: କୋକେନ୍ (or) (koken)
• Persian: کوکائین (fa)
• Polish: kokaina (pl) f
• Portuguese: cocaína (pt) f
• Romanian: cocaină (ro) f
• Russian: кокаи́н (ru) m (kokaín)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: кокаин m

  Roman: kokain (sh) m

• Shan: ၵူဝ်ႇၵဵၼ်း (kò káen)
• Spanish: cocaína (es) f
• Swahili: kokeni
• Swedish: kokain (sv) n
• Tagalog: kokayna, kokaina
• Thai: โคเคน (th) (koo-keen), โคคาอีน (th) (koo-kaa-iin)
• Turkish: kokain (tr)
• Ukrainian: кокаї́н m (kokajín)
• Yiddish: קאָקאַיִן m (kokain)
• Yoruba: kokéènì

See also

• crack
• snort
• yay

Further reading

• “cocaine”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.
• “cocaine”, in Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: Merriam-Webster, 1996–present.
• cocaine on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• Oceanic, oceanic

Italian

Noun

cocaine f

1. plural of cocaina

Anagrams

• acneico