Nuke

Pronunciation

• IPA: /njuːk/
• Rhymes: -uːk

Origin

Short form of nuclear (weapon).

Full definition of nuke

Noun

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

Verb

1. To use a nuclear weapon on a target.First they nuked Hiroshima, then Nagasaki.
2. (colloquial) To cook food or beverages in a microwave oven.I'll nuke some pizza for dinner.
3. (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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