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nuke

  [nook, nyook] noun, adjective, verb, nuked, nuk⋅ing. Informal.
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–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)
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 resp.
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nuke   (nōōk, nyōōk)   
n.  

  1. A nuclear device or weapon.

  2. A nuclear-powered electric generating plant.

tr.v.   nuked, nuk·ing, nukes

  1. To attack with nuclear weapons.

  2. To heat in a microwave oven: "I obtained this soup by nuking one cup of water and mixing that with . . . bouillon" (Judy Markey).


[Shortening and alteration of nuclear.]
The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
Copyright © 2009 by Houghton Mifflin Company.
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Slang Dictionary
nuke

  1. n.
    a nuclear weapon. : Are there nukes aboard that ship?
  2. tv.
    to destroy someone or something. (As with a nuclear weapon.) : Your cat ran through my garden and totally nuked my flowers!
Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions by Richard A. Spears.Fourth Edition.
Copyright 2007. Published by McGraw Hill.
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nuke (oneself) [n(j)uk...]

  1. tv.
    to tan oneself at a tanning salon. : I nuke myself once a week in the spring so I will be ready for the summer bikini season.
Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions by Richard A. Spears.Fourth Edition.
Copyright 2007. Published by McGraw Hill.
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Word Origin & History

nuke 
short for nuclear weapon, 1959, U.S. military slang (see nuclear). The verb is attested from 1962; the sense of "to cook in a microwave oven" is from 1987.
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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Computing Dictionary

nuke
/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.
[The Jargon File]

The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing, © 1993-2007 Denis Howe
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Abbreviations & Acronyms
nuke

  1. a nuclear device or weapon

  2. a nuclear-powered electric generating plant

The American Heritage® Abbreviations Dictionary, Third Edition
Copyright © 2005 by Houghton Mifflin Company.
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