Nuke

/nuk/

Noun

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

Intransitive Verb

1. To use a nuclear weapon on a target. First they nuked Hiroshima, then Nagasaki.
2. To cook food or beverages in a microwave oven. I'll nuke some pizza for dinner.
3. (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.