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cokey

cokey adjective: cocaine-addicted.

Adjective

cokey (comparative more cokey, superlative most cokey)

  1. (uncommon) Cocaine-addicted.
    • She messed around with a bloke named Smokey // She loved him though he was cokey1931, Cab Calloway, “Minnie the Moocher”
    • She sensed he was a neural kin; there was the static, preoccupied expression, the rocking of the torso, the hiding eyes, the small body, the hair that stood in bunches. He was cokie, metabolically.2020, Benjamin Nugent, Fraternity, page 97

Forms of cokey

comparativemore cokey
superlativemost cokey

Origin of cokey

From coke (“cocaine”) + -y.

Phrases with cokey

Words that rhyme with cokey

9 more rhymesFewer rhymes

Questions about cokey

What does cokey mean?
Cokey means cocaine-addicted.
What part of speech is cokey?
Cokey is an adjective.

Words near cokey in the dictionary

  1. cokers
  2. cokery
  3. cokes
  4. cokeses
  5. cokeworks
  6. cokey
  7. coking
  8. coking coal
  9. cokings
  10. Cokley
  11. Cokleys

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