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noun (English)
1. (by extension) Something that destroys or negates, especially on a catastrophic scale.USbroadlycolloquial
2. (nautical) A vessel such as a ship or submarine running on nuclear power.Examples: "A nuke [nuclear submarine] can't survive with one flooded compartment. Any compartment that floods is going to kill you. Okay? Now, that's an acceptable risk because the nuclear hull is made of better steel. If a surface ship hits a nuclear submarine, the surface ship is going to sink, which we've demonstrated again and again. [...] In a nuke you come to periscope depth once a day, every two days."UScolloquial
3. (warez) A cautionary flag placed on a release to label it as "bad" for some reason or another (e.g., being a dupe of a previous release or containing malware).Examples: "A nuke based on non existent rules or made up reasons can be undone – this is called and^([sic]) un-nuke."UScolloquial
4. (rare) A microwave oven.Examples: "Just put it in the nuke for two minutes and it will be ready to eat."; "Three, my brothers that were taken elsewhere shall also be fed, in like manner, not from your nuke garbage but from your best food."; "I let my eyes wander, imagining that I was inside, wandering through, opening the fridge, checking out the nuke and macrowave^([sic]), cranking the handles to see if the water flowed, palming light switches, opening cupboards, ..."UScolloquialrare
verb (English)
1. (transitive, chiefly US, colloquial) To use a nuclear weapon on (a target).Examples: "If a nuclear war ever breaks out, military facilities are likely to be nuked first."; "It's Christmas at ground zero / Now the missiles are on their way / What a crazy fluke / We're gonna get nuked / On this jolly holiday"; "Okay, listen to me: We've been nuked. The whole fucking country's been nuked. I don't know how many are dead in here, but we're alive, and so is Colonel Macklin."UScolloquialtransitive
2. (transitive, chiefly US, colloquial, figuratively) To destroy or erase completely.Examples: "He had his posts nuked from the Google archives."; "The find is all the more remarkable, [George] Koch said, because the trees are in a tract added to the park belatedly, during President Jimmy Carter's administration. "They aren't all that far from an old clear-cut," he said. "Basically, they were almost nuked. The fact that they weren't is amazing.""; "Cyborg romance is the flip side of the robot uprising. Our mechanical creations love us instead of nuking us from orbit. The fantasy here isn't about making it with a hot fembot. It's about wanting approval from our children, wanting them to grow up without obliterating us."Synonyms: annihilate, devastate, obliterate, destroy, annihilate, aerosolize, atomize, benothingUScolloquialfigurativelytransitive
3. (transitive, Internet slang, by extension) To carry out a denial-of-service attack against (an IRC user).Examples: "The command and control servers used by the Mydoom variant, responsible for the recent denial of service attacks against Korean and US government websites, receive instructions from a master server located in the UK. [...] Apparently, the decision of whoever was responsible to damage the infected systems after July 10 pointed [Roger] Thompson in this direction. "Why bother nuking 60k computers after doing all the work of assembling them? Nuking them only helps the Good Guys, because the victims are forced to re-build, and therefore clean, their computers. [..."]"InternetUSbroadlycolloquialtransitive
4. (transitive, chiefly US, colloquial) To expose to some form of radiation.UScolloquialtransitive
5. (transitive, chiefly US, colloquial) To cook in a microwave oven.Examples: "I’ll nuke some pizza for dinner."; "If you've picked up a secondhand one, you should invest $4.00 for a microwave leak tester. The one I have has a little smiley face and a little frowning face. If the smiley face lights up when you pass it in front of the turned-on microwave, then you can nuke with impunity."; "Dad had just slapped dinner on the table—a frozen lasagna nuked in the microwave, salad from a bag and presliced garlic bread, also nuked."UScolloquialtransitive
6. (transitive, US, nautical, colloquial) To overanalyze or despair unduly over something.UScolloquialtransitive
noun (English)
1. (anatomy, obsolete) Alternative form of nucha (“spinal cord; nape of the neck”).Examples: "The organ of amativeness is placed in the nuke of the neck as a protuberance of the cerebellum."; "Historically, other words have been used to refer to this place on the body: hattrel, niddick, noddle, noll, nuke, and poll; all have passed out of use."USalt-ofalternativecolloquialobsolete
noun (English)
1. (chiefly Northern England, archaic) Alternative form of nook (“a corner of a piece of land; an angled piece of land, especially one extending into other land”).Examples: "The ancient bounds of the cow paſture of Penrith, [...] and then from the ſaid Old Dyke end, alongſt Plumpton Dyke Eaſt over Petterel unto Plumpton park nuke, otherwiſe called Plumpton nuke; [...]"; "The bounder beginneth at the east nuke of the Carter, and from thence extendeth eastward upon the height of the edge to Robscleugh Score, and from thence to Phillip's cross, so to the Spittopnuke, from thence to Greenlaw, so to the height of the Brown Hartlaw, and from thence along the high street to the nuke of the Blakelaw, and from thence to Hemmier's Well, where Ridsdale and Cookdale meet, all wᵉʰ is a bounder against Scotland."Northern-EnglandUSalt-ofalternativearchaiccolloquial
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