Meaning of Nuke | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A nuclear weapon.
   US, colloquial
2. Alternative spelling of nuc (“nucleus colony of bees”).
   US, alt-of, alternative, colloquial
3. Something that destroys or negates, especially on a catastrophic scale.
   US, broadly, colloquial
4. A nuclear power station.
   US, colloquial
5. A vessel such as a ship or submarine running on nuclear power.
   US, colloquial
6. A person (such as a sailor in a navy or a scientist) who works with nuclear weapons or nuclear power.
   US, colloquial
7. 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).
   US, colloquial
8. A microwave oven.
   US, colloquial, rare

Equivalents

Examples

“"Mini-nukes" are "among the active unresolved nuclear issues in NATO at the moment," according to a Senate Foreign Relations Committee staff report. […] Mini-nukes, the report said, are the "new generation of tactical nuclear weapons which combine low and variable yield possibilities with enhanced radiation characteristics and which could be used with artillery and laser-guided or other 'smart' bombs."”

“The world has witnessed the first confrontation between the ‘nukes’ and the ‘non-nukes’ [i.e., countries possessing and not possessing nuclear weapons]. Although only a political one, this confrontation at the Review Conference of the Parties to the Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT), which took place last May in Geneva, portends serious trouble ahead.”

“‘This, er, initiator of polonium and lithium, would it be used in an anti-personnel bomb?’ he asked. ‘Oh yes, you could say so, boyo,’ replied the Welshman. ‘An initiator, you see, is what sets off a nuke.’”

“For citizens of nuclear states, nukes are the metaphor for success and failure, the constraints for experimentation, the analogy for all other "problems." Nonetheless, these same citizens seem reluctant to take nukes so seriously.”

“I can buy nukes on the black market for $40 million each.”

“That was the apparent strategy with the hand-carried nukes, Bentley said — not to nuke Russians directly but rather nuke big holes in the Alps, so that all the resultant ash would fill up the valleys and prevent Soviet tanks and trucks from being able to pass, he said.”

“Confronted with the threat of several nukes on the island, we soon realized that the Long Island Sound is being used as a massive cooling basin for nuclear reactors.”

“Nukes Don't Pollute”

“He calculates that nukes might be needed to power energy-intensive “large scale co2 sequestration techniques” as well.”

“We've analyzed employee manifests at all nukes, LNG, and refineries in the United States for Middle Eastern profile matches.”

“A nuke [nuclear submarine] can't survive with one flooded compartment. Any compartment that floods is going to kill you. Okay? Now, that's an acceptable risk because the nuclear hull is made of better steel. If a surface ship hits a nuclear submarine, the surface ship is going to sink, which we've demonstrated again and again. [...] In a nuke you come to periscope depth once a day, every two days.”

“But nowhere in our military services is there a more highly trained, more qualified group of officers than the Navy's nuclear power officers – Navy nukes. The responsibilities the Navy's 4,300 nukes have to assume – procuring, testing, operating, and maintaining our nuclear-powered fleet – require a much deeper level of understanding than is necessary in the other services.”

“A nuke based on non existent rules or made up reasons can be undone – this is called and^([sic]) un-nuke.”

“Just put it in the nuke for two minutes and it will be ready to eat.”

“Three, my brothers that were taken elsewhere shall also be fed, in like manner, not from your nuke garbage but from your best food.”

“I let my eyes wander, imagining that I was inside, wandering through, opening the fridge, checking out the nuke and macrowave^([sic]), cranking the handles to see if the water flowed, palming light switches, opening cupboards, ...”

“To replace the entire unit would be my best advice, to repair it costs more than just money, you also have to hassle with the repair people and lose out on time not having your 'nuke'.”

“The done bell on the nuke went off. In my book, next-day pizza is one of the best leftovers around, especially when accompanied by the lone survivor of a six-pack of Sam Adams special.”

“As a further experiment, I placed a very weak over-wintered nuke over the queenless colony. In bee strength, this little nuke was not half as strong.”

“Small new hives with a queen and a few worker bees, commonly called "nukes" are not suitable for pollination purposes [...]. New colonies should be developed before they are brought to the alfalfa seed field [...].”

“The first new queen to emerge from the cell may kill the other queens before they can emerge. The producer must be present when the new queens emerge to separate them from the nuke before all of the other new queens are killed.”

“The organ of amativeness is placed in the nuke of the neck as a protuberance of the cerebellum.”

“Historically, other words have been used to refer to this place on the body: hattrel, niddick, noddle, noll, nuke, and poll; all have passed out of use.”

“The ancient bounds of the cow paſture of Penrith, [...] and then from the ſaid Old Dyke end, alongſt Plumpton Dyke Eaſt over Petterel unto Plumpton park nuke, otherwiſe called Plumpton nuke; [...]”

“The bounder beginneth at the east nuke of the Carter, and from thence extendeth eastward upon the height of the edge to Robscleugh Score, and from thence to Phillip's cross, so to the Spittopnuke, from thence to Greenlaw, so to the height of the Brown Hartlaw, and from thence along the high street to the nuke of the Blakelaw, and from thence to Hemmier's Well, where Ridsdale and Cookdale meet, all wᵉʰ is a bounder against Scotland.”

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