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Co·ca

(kōkə), Imogene 1908-2001.

American comedian who costarred in comedy sketches with Sid Caesar on the weekly television program Your Show of Shows (1950-1954).

co·ca

(kōkə)

1. Any of certain Andean evergreen shrubs or small trees of the genus Erythroxylum, especially E. coca, whose leaves contain cocaine and other alkaloids.

2. The dried leaves of such a plant, chewed by people of the Andes for a stimulating effect and also used for extraction of cocaine and other alkaloids.

[Spanish, from Quechua kúka.]

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