coca-colonize
古柯殖民
Definitions
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Co·ca-col·o·nized, Co·ca-col·o·niz·ing.
- : to bring under the influence of U.S. trade, popular culture, and attitudes.
Examples
Coca-Cola was a wildly popular drink and hangover remedy because, well, it contained cocaine.
And, with Coca-Cola announcing the launch of a new milk product, the beverage could be back in our hands before we know it.
“We are not saying we need to colonize the moon or anything crazy like that,” he added.
Coca leaf, on the other hand, was criminalized after the UN Single Convention on Narcotic Drugs of 1961 (PDF), says Huertas.
Cocaine comes from the coca plant, which grows in the Andes and is considered sacred.
Its name, signifying coca-field, or plantation, denotes that coca must formerly have been cultivated here.
The principal active constituent of coca-leaves was discovered about 1860 by Niemann, and called by him cocaine.
There were over a thousand people in this expedition that was going out to colonize Oregon for the United States.
She cannot be assailed with success at home, and she has no need to leave her own territories in search of lands to colonize.
Theyll have their atomic war pretty soon, and leave us a nice high-radiation planet to colonize.