different between zuke vs nuke

English

Etymology

Shortening. Compare cuke.

Pronunciation

Noun

zuke (plural zukes)

1. (US, colloquial) Zucchini.
   • 2005, Beth Hensperger, Julie Kaufmann, Not Your Mother's Slow Cooker Cookbook

     But please use tender young squash. The zuke someone overlooked in the garden until it was the size of a rolling pin will be too bitter for this casserole.

   • 2009, Dev Patnaik, Peter Mortensen, Wired to care: how companies prosper when they create widespread empathy

     By the time she was nine, Nina was traveling to distant markets on her own to sell her family's fresh tomatoes, beans, squash, zukes, cukes, peppers […]

English

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /nju?k/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /n(j)uk/
• Rhymes: -u?k
• Homophones: neuk, nuc
• Hyphenation: nuke

Etymology 1

Clipping of nuclear weapon. The verb is derived from the noun.

Noun

nuke (plural nukes) (chiefly US, colloquial)

1. A nuclear weapon.
2. (by extension) Something that destroys or negates, especially on a catastrophic scale.
3. A nuclear power station.
4. (nautical) A vessel such as a ship or submarine running on nuclear power.
5. A person (such as a sailor in a navy or a scientist) who works with nuclear weapons or nuclear power.
6. (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).
7. (rare) A microwave oven.

Derived terms

• antinuke
• micronuke
• nukage
• nukespeak
• nukewar
• tacnuke

Translations

Verb

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

1. (transitive, chiefly US, colloquial) To use a nuclear weapon on a target.
2. (transitive, chiefly US, colloquial, figuratively) To destroy or erase completely.

   Synonyms: annihilate, devastate, obliterate; see also Thesaurus:destroy

   1. (Wikimedia Commons jargon) to completely delete all uploads of an user, usually due to copyright violations or vandalism
3. (transitive, Internet slang, by extension) To carry out a denial-of-service attack against (an IRC user).
4. (transitive, chiefly US, colloquial) To expose to some form of radiation.
5. (transitive, chiefly US, colloquial) To cook in a microwave oven.
6. (transitive, warez) To flag a release as bad for some reason or another (for instance, due to being a dupe of an earlier release or containing malware).
7. (transitive, US, nautical, colloquial) To over-analyze or overly despair over something.

Derived terms

Translations

Etymology 2

Clipping of nuc(leus)

Noun

nuke (plural nukes)

1. Alternative spelling of nuc (“nucleus colony of bees”)

Etymology 3

See nucha.

Noun

nuke (plural nukes)

2. (anatomy, obsolete) Alternative form of nucha (“spinal cord; nape of the neck”)

Etymology 4

See nook.

Noun

nuke (plural nukes)

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”)

References

Further reading

• nuke (disambiguation) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• neuk, unke