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Definition of 'nuke'

English

Noun

(en-noun)
  • Nuclear weapon.
  • "I can buy nukes on the black market for $40 million each''" - John Travolta in the movie ''Swordfish .
  • Something that negates or destroys, especially on a catastrophic scale.
  • (US|slang) A microwave oven
  • "Just put it in the nuke for two minutes and then eat it. "
  • Nuclear electrical power generation station. http://m-w.com/cgi-bin/dictionary?nuke
  • Verb

    (nuk)
  • To use a nuclear weapon on a target.
  • First they nuked Hiroshima, then Nagasaki.
  • (colloquial) To cook food or beverages in a microwave oven.
  • I'll nuke some pizza for dinner.
  • (colloquial) To completely destroy.
  • To try to hide his posting history on Usenet, he had his posts nuked from the Google archives.''http://m-w.com/cgi-bin/dictionary?nuke (see also ''expunge )

    Derived terms

    * nuker

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