Nuke
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Nuke is most commonly used as a slang term for a nuclear weapon, or the act of detonating one.
Nuke may also refer to:
Computing[edit]
- Nuke (software), a node-based compositor
- Nuke (video games), a damaging attack in a role-playing game
- Nuke (warez), a label to flag problems with a warez release
- Nuke (computer), a kind of denial-of-service attack
Fiction[edit]
- Nuke (Marvel Comics), a villain with the American flag tattooed on his face
- Nuke (Squadron Supreme), a superhero
- "Nuke" LaLoosh, a character in the film Bull Durham
- Nuke, a narcotic in the film RoboCop 2
- Luke Snyder and Noah Mayer, a super couple from the television series As the World Turns
Other uses[edit]
- (slang) To cook something using a microwave oven.
- Modern US naval term referring to those sailors servicing shipboard nuclear power plants.
See also[edit]
- nuc (pronounced "nuke"), a very small colony of honeybees
- Nuuk, the capital of Greenland
- Newk (disambiguation)