nuke

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English

Etymology

Short form of nuclear (weapon).

Pronunciation

• IPA: /njuːk/, SAMPA: /nju:k/
• Rhymes: -uːk

Noun

nuke (plural nukes)

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.

Translations

Nuclear weapon

Finnish: ydinase (fi)

Something that negates

A microwave oven

Finnish: mikro (fi), mikroaaltouuni (fi)

Nuclear electrical power generation station

French: centrale nucléaire (fr)

Verb

nuke (third-person singular simple present nukes, present participle nuking, simple past and past participle nuked)

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. (see also expunge)

Derived terms

• nuker

Translations

To use a nuclear weapon on a target

To cook food or beverages in a microwave oven

Danish: lave mad i mikron (da)

Finnish: lämmittää mikrossa/mikroaaltouunissa

To completely destroy

Finnish: tuhota (fi)

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