coke

This term operates across three distinct semantic domains: industrial, commercial, and illicit. In an industrial context, it refers to a processed fuel, carrying a connotation of heavy industry and metallurgy. When used as a shorthand for Coca-Cola, it is highly casual and ubiquitous in North American English, often serving as a genericized trademark for any cola-flavored beverage.

In the context of narcotics, the word functions as a street-level slang term for cocaine. Because these three meanings are so disparate, the intended sense is almost entirely dependent on the surrounding environment, such as a factory, a restaurant, or a criminal investigation. As an uncountable noun in its industrial and drug senses, it requires partitive phrases like a shipment of or a pile of to denote specific quantities.