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Coca-Cola|ˈkəʊkəˈkəʊlə|
The proprietary name of a popular American soft drink. Also fig. So in various humorous or allusive formations, as coca-colonization.
1887Evening Jrnl. (Atlanta) 30 June 1/4 Drink the brain tonic and intellectual soda fountain beverage Coca-Cola. 1921Glasgow Herald 25 Apr. 8, I was ‘all right’—should I ever want anything better than ginger-ale, root beer, or coco-cola [sic]. 1947G. Greene 19 Stories 81, I caught sight of him in the only drug-store, having a coca-cola. 1950E. S. Hyams From Waste Land xiii. 198 The coco-colanization [sic] of the viticultural regions. 1958Times Lit. Suppl. 24 Jan. 39/2 In New Haven you can get a Baroque hymn, a kind of Coca Cola Crawshaw [sic] in praise of St. Theresa of Lisieux. 1959Times 4 Mar. 11/6 Is Australia being ‘coca-colonized’? 1959Times 1 June 17/4 Since the war the business aircraft has become as much a part of the American way of life as baseball or Coca-Cola. 1960Koestler Lotus & Robot 277 One might call it the coca-colonization of Western Europe. |