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noun
- nuclear weapon, Nuclear weapon.
- "I can buy nukes on the black market for $40 million each" - John Travolta in the movie Swordfish.
- Something that negates - especially on a catastrophic scale. Destruction.
- A microwave oven. (US slang)
- "Just put it in the for two minutes and then eat it."
- Nuclear electrical power generation station.<ref> http://m-w.com/cgi-bin/dictionary?nuke </ref>
verb (nuk, ing)
- 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 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.<ref> http://m-w.com/cgi-bin/dictionary?nuke </ref> (see also expunge)
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Etymology: Short form of nuclear (weapon).
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