nuke
noun
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L324590 on Wikidata ↗verb
- to attack or destroy with, or as if with, nuclear bombs
Wiktionary
Pronunciation: /njuːk/ / /n(j)uk/
noun
Etymology: See nook.
- Alternative form of nook (“a corner of a piece of land; an angled piece of land, especially one extending into other land”).
“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.”
verb
Etymology: Clipping of nuclear weapon. The verb is derived from the noun.
- To use a nuclear weapon on (a target).
“If a nuclear war ever breaks out, military facilities are likely to be nuked first.”
“It's Christmas at ground zero / Now the missiles are on their way / What a crazy fluke / We're gonna get nuked / On this jolly holiday”
- To destroy or erase completely.
“He had his posts nuked from the Google archives.”
“The find is all the more remarkable, [George] Koch said, because the trees are in a tract added to the park belatedly, during President Jimmy Carter's administration. "They aren't all that far from an old clear-cut," he said. "Basically, they were almost nuked. The fact that they weren't is amazing."”
- To carry out a denial-of-service attack against (an IRC user).
“The command and control servers used by the Mydoom variant, responsible for the recent denial of service attacks against Korean and US government websites, receive instructions from a master server located in the UK. [...] Apparently, the decision of whoever was responsible to damage the infected systems after July 10 pointed [Roger] Thompson in this direction. "Why bother nuking 60k computers after doing all the work of assembling them? Nuking them only helps the Good Guys, because the victims are forced to re-build, and therefore clean, their computers. [..."]”
- To maliciously destroy an online community or chat server (especially on Discord) by mass-deleting channels, roles, and messages, or by mass-banning members, often using an automated script or bot.
“The Chaos Gang managed to get administrator permissions and nuke the entire server in seconds.”
- To expose to some form of radiation.
- To cook in a microwave oven.
“I’ll nuke some pizza for dinner.”
“If you've picked up a secondhand one, you should invest $4.00 for a microwave leak tester. The one I have has a little smiley face and a little frowning face. If the smiley face lights up when you pass it in front of the turned-on microwave, then you can nuke with impunity.”
- To overanalyze or despair unduly over something.