nuke

[nook, nyook] /nuk, nyuk/
noun
1.
a nuclear or thermonuclear weapon.
2.
a nuclear power plant or nuclear reactor.
3.
nuclear energy:
to convert from coal to nuke.
adjective
4.
of or pertaining to a nuclear or thermonuclear weapon or to a nuclear plant.
verb (used with object), nuked, nuking.
5.
to attack, defeat, or destroy with or as if with nuclear weapons.
6.
Slang. to cook or bake in a microwave oven.
Origin
1945-50; by shortening and respelling
Examples from the web for nuke
  • If one nuke gets detonated in anger, you can bet there will be nothing boring about the idea of nuclear war.
  • By then even one loose nuke could make all other plans moot.
  • To resume: nuke will never be truly safe as life and our survival on this planet will never be as well.
  • It comes down to cost as much as the anti nuke lobby.
  • Ports report urges better evaluation of nuke detectors.
  • Most likely you will be killed by plane crash, car accident, maybe war or nuke.
  • When a nuke goes off, its apparent temperature is near that of the sun.
  • It then announces to the world that everybody has to do what it says, or it will nuke a city.
  • Any state or nation is well within it's rights to nuke the facility, if they believe they are in grave danger.
  • We nuke prepared dishes rather than growing our own food and machine-wash ready-made clothes rather than sewing and scrubbing.
British Dictionary definitions for nuke

nuke

/njuːk/
verb (transitive)
1.
to attack or destroy with nuclear weapons
noun
2.
a nuclear bomb
3.
a military strike with nuclear weapons
4.
nuclear power
5.
(mainly US) a nuclear power plant
Word Origin and History for nuke
n.

short for nuclear weapon, 1959, U.S. military slang (see nuclear). The verb is attested from 1962; the slang sense of "to cook in a microwave oven" is from 1987. Related: Nuked; nuking.

Slang definitions & phrases for nuke

nuke

noun

A nuclear device or facility; nuclear weapon; nuclear power plant (1959+)

verb
  1. To destroy with a nuclear weapon or weapons: The global village has been nuked (1969+)
  2. To destroy; eliminate; kill: Jesus Christ, I can nuke this guy/ Nuke this whole paragraph (1986+)
  3. To cook or heat in a microwave oven (1987+)

nuke in Technology


/n[y]ook/ 1. To intentionally delete the entire contents of a given directory or storage volume. "On Unix, "rm -r /usr" will nuke everything in the usr file system." Never used for accidental deletion. Opposite: blow away.
2. Synonym for dike, applied to smaller things such as files, features, or code sections. Often used to express a final verdict. "What do you want me to do with that 80-meg wallpaper file?" "Nuke it."
3. Used of processes as well as files; nuke is a frequent verbal alias for "kill -9" on Unix.
4. On IBM PCs, a bug that results in fandango on core can trash the operating system, including the FAT (the in-core copy of the disk block chaining information). This can utterly scramble attached disks, which are then said to have been "nuked". This term is also used of analogous lossages on Macintoshes and other micros without memory protection.
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Related Abbreviations for nuke

nuke

  1. a nuclear device or weapon
  2. a nuclear-powered electric generating plant