noun
cocaine
kuh-KAYN
noun
1
A powerful, addictive stimulant drug extracted from the coca plant, used illegally as a recreational drug and occasionally in medicine as a local anaesthetic.
"Cocaine use can cause a dangerously fast heart rate."
"Doctors once used cocaine as a surgical anaesthetic before safer alternatives were developed."
How to Use Cocaine
Learner’s notesIn plain EnglishAn illegal stimulant drug made from coca leaves.
Common pairings
cocaine addiction
a line of cocaine
cocaine use
Word Forms
cocained past tense, cocaines plural, cocaines singular
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Etymology
Formed from "coca" plus the chemical suffix "-ine"; first used in this sense around 1874.