kola — meaning in English

English meaning

• coke noun A solid fuel made by roasting coal, used mainly in steelmaking.
• cola noun A sweet, dark, fizzy soft drink originally flavored with kola nut extract and caramel.
• toffee noun A chewy sweet made by boiling sugar and butter (or milk) until it hardens on cooling.

Senses

kola is used for these senses in English:

• Coke (countable, uncountable, informal) Cola-based soft drink; (in particular) Coca-Cola.
• Coke (US, especially, Southern US, informal) Any soft drink, regardless of type.
• coke (informal, slang, uncountable) Cocaine.
• cola A beverage or a drink made with kola nut flavoring, caramel and carbonated water.
• toffee (uncountable) A type of confectionery made by boiling sugar (or treacle, etc) with butter or milk, then cooling the mixture so that it becomes hard.
• toffee (countable) A small, individual piece of toffee.

coke — full definition

1. noun A solid fuel made by roasting coal, used mainly in steelmaking.
2. noun Informal term for cocaine.
3. noun Informal shortening of Coca-Cola or a cola-flavored soft drink.

cola — full definition

1. noun A sweet, dark, fizzy soft drink originally flavored with kola nut extract and caramel.
2. noun The kola nut itself, or the tropical tree it comes from.
3. noun Cannabis slang: a dense cluster of flower buds on a cannabis plant.

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