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coca

/kɔ.ka/

noun, masculine/kɔ.ka/plural: cocas

Coke (serving of Coca-Cola); cola (serving of any cola drink)

“Quand tu commandes un coca dans un bar, t’as l’air bizarre”, abonde Camille, étudiante en journalisme."When you order a Coke in a bar, you look weird," agrees Camille, a journalism student.

Apocope of Coca-Cola; ultimately the same as Etymology 2.

noun, masculine/kɔ.ka/plural: cocas

coca (plant); cocaine

2013, Benjamin Bord, L'Afghanistan est-il un narco-Etat ?, p. 32. Si en Amérique latine la plante généralement utilisée à des fins narcotiques est le coca, en Afghanistan, il s'agit du pavot à opium.If in Latin America the plant generally used for narcotic purposes is coca, in Afghanistan, it is the opium poppy.

Borrowed from Spanish, from Quechua.