Noun: cocaine
| Singular | cocaine |
| Plural | cocaines |
Sample Sentences
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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. [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:]
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All I get, uh, is this cup of cold coffee and cocaine / And your ugly face, look out [1983, “Cold Coffee & Cocaine”, performed by Prince:]
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Cocaine’s awfully expensive stuff, isn't it? Is it worth it? [1990, Andrew Davies, Michael Dobbs, House of Cards, season 1, episode 1, spoken by Frank Urquhart (Ian Richardson):]
Nouns inflected like cocaine
soldier's woundwort,
Nicosian,
whopper,
greypate,
tactile sign language,
chronotrope,
Rosie Lee,
dissentient,
photoinactivator,
sulphonediimine,
coastal waterfall,
residuary devise,
bituminization,
nitrosonaphthol,
smṛiti,
geosphere,
backscreen,
mensuralist,
flocculate,
flocculant, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
1. Etymology tree
2. Aymarader.
3. Quechua kukabor.
4. Aymara kukabor.
5. Spanish cocabor.
6. English coca
7. English -ine
8. English cocaine
9. From coca + -ine, from Quechua kuka. First use appears c. 1874.
Verbs referencing "cocaine"
Finnish Nouns
kokaiini, Polish Nouns
kokaina.