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Nuke

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/nuk/

Noun

Nuclear weapon. "I can buy nukes on the black market for $40 million each" - John Travolta in the movie Swordfish.

Intransitive Verb

To use a nuclear weapon on a target. First they nuked Hiroshima, then Nagasaki.
To cook food or beverages in a microwave oven. I'll nuke some pizza for dinner.
(computing) to completely destroy a computer file or directory. To try to hide his posting history on Usenet, he had his posts nuked from the Google archives.

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WordNet Definitions

The noun "nuke" has one sense:

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The verb "nuke" has three senses:

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