单词 | coca-cola |
释义 | Coca-Colan. The proprietary name of a popular American soft drink. Also figurative. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > drink > aerated or carbonated drink > [noun] > proprietary drinks Club Soda1877 Coca-Cola1887 Dr Pepper1895 Pepsi-Cola1903 Coke1909 Pepsi1916 seven-up1931 Aqua Libra1987 1887 Evening Jrnl. (Atlanta, Georgia) 30 June 1/4 Drink the brain tonic and intellectual soda fountain beverage Coca-Cola. 1921 Glasgow Herald 25 Apr. 8 I was ‘all right’—should I ever want anything better than ginger-ale, root beer, or coco-cola [sic]. 1947 G. Greene 19 Stories 81 I caught sight of him in the only drug-store, having a coca-cola. 1958 Times 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. 1959 Times 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. Derivatives (In humorous or allusive formations.) coca-colonization n. ΚΠ 1950 E. Hyams From Waste Land xiii. 198 The coco-colanization [sic] of the viticultural regions. 1960 A. Koestler Lotus & Robot 277 One might call it the coca-colonization of Western Europe. coca-colonize v. ΚΠ 1959 Times 4 Mar. 11/6 Is Australia being ‘coca-colonized’? This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1972; most recently modified version published online March 2019). < n.1887 |
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