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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.
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Nuked
is always a great word to know.
So is ninnyhammer. Does it mean:
| a scrap or morsel of food left at a meal. |
| a fool or simpleton; ninny. |
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 respelling
1945–50; by shortening and respelling
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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, © 2010 Douglas Harper
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nuke (oneself) definition[n(j)uk...]
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Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions by Richard A. Spears.Fourth Edition.
Copyright 2007. Published by McGraw Hill.
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