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▸ noun: (by extension) Something that destroys or negates, especially on a catastrophic scale.
▸ noun: A nuclear power station.
▸ noun: (nautical) A vessel such as a ship or submarine running on nuclear power.
▸ noun: A person (such as a sailor in a navy or a scientist) who works with nuclear weapons or nuclear power.
▸ noun: (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).
▸ noun: (rare) A microwave oven.
▸ verb: (transitive, chiefly US, colloquial) To use a nuclear weapon on a target.
▸ verb: (transitive, chiefly US, colloquial, figuratively) To destroy or erase completely.
▸ verb: (transitive, Internet slang, by extension) To carry out a denial-of-service attack against (an IRC user).
▸ verb: (transitive, chiefly US, colloquial) To expose to some form of radiation.
▸ verb: (transitive, chiefly US, colloquial) To cook in a microwave oven.
▸ verb: (transitive, US, nautical, colloquial) To overanalyze or despair unduly over something.
▸ noun: Alternative spelling of nuc (“nucleus colony of bees”) [(beekeeping) A nucleus colony; a small bee colony created from a larger colony.]
▸ noun: (anatomy, obsolete) Alternative form of nucha (“spinal cord; nape of the neck”) [(anatomy, obsolete) The spinal cord.]
▸ noun: (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”) [A small corner formed by two walls; an alcove.]
Similar:
atomize,
microwave,
zap,
atom-bomb,
atomic warhead,
micro-cook,
nuclear warhead,
thermonuclear warhead,
atomic weapon,
nuclear bomb,
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Types:
fission,
fusion,
thermonuclear,
hydrogen bomb,
neutron bomb,
dirty bomb,
atomic bomb,
nuclear bomb,
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