cocaine

See also: cocaïne and cocaïné

English

A pile of cocaine powder.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /koʊˈkeɪn/, /kəˈkeɪn/, /ˈkoʊkeɪn/
• Rhymes: -eɪn

Etymology

coca +‎ -ine. Coca is from Quechua kuka.

Noun

cocaine ‎(countable and uncountable, plural cocaines)

1. (uncountable) A stimulant narcotic, derived from cultivated plants of the genus Erythroxylum, in the form of a white powder that users generally self-administer by insufflation through the nose.
   • 1990, House of Cards, Season 1, Episode 1:

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

2. (countable) Any derivative of cocaine.

Synonyms

• (slang): blow, Bolivian marching powder, boots, California corn flakes, charlie, coke, girl, nose candy, powder, rock, slim, snow, snuff, white lady, yayo or yeyo, yola
• See also Wikisaurus:cocaine

Related terms

• cokehead
• hydroxytropacocaine
• tropacocaine

Translations

the narcotic

• Arabic: كُوكَايِين m ‎(kukayīn)
• Armenian: կոկաին (hy) ‎(kokain)
• Bulgarian: кокаин m ‎(kokain)
• 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 (zh), 古柯碱 (zh) ‎(gǔkējiǎn)

• Czech: kokain (cs) m
• Danish: kokain
• Dutch: cocaïne (nl) m
• Esperanto: kokaino
• Estonian: kokaiin
• Faroese: kokain n
• Finnish: kokaiini (fi)
• French: cocaïne (fr) f
• Galician: cocaína f, fariña f (colloquial)
• German: Kokain (de) n
• Greek: κοκαΐνη (el) f ‎(kokaḯni)
• Hebrew: קוֹקָאִין (he) m ‎(koka'ín)

• Hindi: कोकीन (hi) ‎(kokīn)
• Ido: kokaino (io)
• Italian: cocaina (it) f
• Japanese: コカイン ‎(kokain)
• Korean: 코카인 (ko) ‎(kokain)
• Macedonian: кокаи́н m ‎(kokaín)
• Malay: kokain
• Navajo: nííʼiiʼniłí
• Norwegian: kokain m, n
• 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

• Spanish: cocaína (es) f
• Swedish: kokain (sv) n
• Tagalog: kokayna, kokaina
• Thai: โคเคน (th) ‎(koh-kayn)
• Turkish: kokain (tr)

See also

• crack
• snort

External links

• cocaine on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• oceanic, Oceanic

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Italian

Noun

cocaine f

1. plural of cocaina

Anagrams

• acneico